May 18, 2012
Gratitude.
New friendships. Surprise run-ins with old friends. Sunsets. Joshua. Love.
The fact is, I don’t get enough of it. And as I am not free to work a schedule that accommodates my bat-like ways, I have to work extra hard to go to bed at an hour that allows me to get up without feeling like I just laid down. I haven’t yet figured out the best combination of factors...
It’s been a while since I’ve made a list of some of the songs and artists I’ve recently discovered, so I thought I’d do that today while I’m listening to Pandora. This serves a dual purpose: I am not only writing my blog post so I can just pop YouTube links in and hit “publish” when I get home, but...
There are lots of great songs about rain. That’s even the name of one of them. Maybe I’ll make a rain playlist. But really, the rain is its own soundtrack, the uneven patter of larger drips from the roof overpowering but not entirely drowning out the steady but gentle beat on the sidewalk and street. Most of the time, I...
That was what a friend said on my Facebook post about my first ever banana bread failure, due to a slight misreading of the recipe. “Oops.” And while the goopy mess I took out of the oven felt like an enormous catastrophe and a waste of food and representative of every way I eff things up all the time… Really?...
So last May, a coworker and I were in charge of the first department “fun day” we did at work, and we thought it would be fun for everyone to plant something to have at their desk. May flowers, and all that. So I went out and bought a bunch of seed packets and a bag of potting soil and...
I am a tired kitten after too many nights of too few hours of good sleep and early wakeups and lots of busy-ness in my evenings, so this will be brief; I’d have to keep it annoyingly vague for now anyway, so really, I’m doing you a favor. :) I had a meeting this evening with a local entrepeneur and...
I wrote over on FolioFiles today because I wanted to say thank you to Maurice Sendak, and that is the more appropriate space for it. I’m not through, though, so here is the video that brought me to the kind of tears you just can’t stop. I feel like I have lost a friend I never knew I had, but...
I’m feeling pretty introspective with the personal work I’m doing this week in particular, and I want to write about some of it here, but I haven’t really decided on the context. In the meantime, my letter to the student vets should go out this week; I’m excited about that, and am really proud of the end product (thank you...
I intended to fiddle with the blog today, but it just didn’t come about. I did get a bit accomplished today, so I’m not going to stress about what I didn’t do. As a friend wisely advised, “When you don’t do everything on your to-do list, write down what you DID do and check it off.” I like this idea...