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A Solitude That Leaves You Less Lonely

The worst is over now, I think. It’s been a rough summer (for many of you out there too!). A rainstorm washed out my living room, left me uprooted and homeless for a couple months while it got cleaned up and put back together again. It’s funny, before this disaster I was getting restless, felt the need for a shift, contemplated moving. This house and this life is the longest I’d been in one place since childhood.

Well careful what you wish for, moved I was. And though I’m back in my home, it feels different, I’m different. Like a house plant, root bound and quasi-dormant, I think I needed shaking up at bit so roots could grow in a new direction. God I hate being uprooted, Read More »A Solitude That Leaves You Less Lonely

ToV 9 – MOAR peace? pfft!

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.

I was once out for a walk, back from the chiropractor I think, feeling all open and aligned. The sun was shining, a light breeze was blowing; it was, as Winnie the Pooh would have said, a hummy sort of day.  I was enjoying the moment, smiling, thinking: this, now THIS is a day.

Two young men in suits (on a summer afternoon!) see me from across the street, run over to greet me.

“How would you like to have more peace in your life?”

“Actually, I’m feeling pretty peaceful already, thanks.”

“Well, but you could be MORE peaceful.”Read More »ToV 9 – MOAR peace? pfft!

Day 93 – meh, call it 100

Yeah, so… my efforts last week to plug back in took the last of the stuffing out of me. I’m now faced with the reality I have to let go of even the last few threads of things I was holding on to. Including this 100 day project.

I was pretty wrecked up about this until a friend said to me: Hey, I work in fundraising, we round up all the time. 92 days? Round up! Your done. I liked the sound of thatRead More »Day 93 – meh, call it 100