This is one of my favorites, though really, I consistently like them all. I often want to come back after I comment, and comment some more, like after last time's body/animal truth and the exploding eggs. As for dark matter, I'm definitely a believer in a way that might seem woo-woo to someone if I tried to express it in a few sentences, so better not to express it at all. (P.S. I'm also a "not enough" and "too much" person; par for the course for writers? Or not?)
Oh thank you! But I honestly don't have words to express my slippery feelings about that stuff, just a "sense of it." In other words, if I had a few hours and a few drinks in me I might spill, but sober and in print, too skittish.
Okay (see? I always want to come back), this isn't it, but it probably crosses in a Venn diagram with my increasing sense that everything has or is a form of consciousness.
Being present is so key to happiness I find and I also fail at it so regularly, getting sucked it to the tyranny of the urgent. Good luck with “Live with intention. Be present. Look around while I wait in the Walgreens line. Maybe even make a friend or reach out to an old one. “
Practical enforcement helps - I installed the app that reduces my car insurance if I touch my phone zero times on any trip (not at stoplights, not in dead traffic, never) so that’s a good start.
We enforce no cell phone dinners with a pretty good hit rate at making it happen. Makes a huge difference. Mostly though it is me … too easy to get sucked into work in my “always on” job.
It's really tough to do fewer things, isn't it? I'm trying to do that now.
I want to fill every second with something, but sometimes you need a little bit of nothing for a while. I'm learning, but it's a slow, painful process that involves working on my "patience muscle", and not allowing boredom to take hold and dominate. Boredom is a double-edged sword: incredibly useful, but also incredibly dangerous.
Even my list of doing nothing contained all these somethings. I still think Aristotle is onto something and “nothing” doesn’t exist, but it is good to strive for less not more.
This is one of my favorites, though really, I consistently like them all. I often want to come back after I comment, and comment some more, like after last time's body/animal truth and the exploding eggs. As for dark matter, I'm definitely a believer in a way that might seem woo-woo to someone if I tried to express it in a few sentences, so better not to express it at all. (P.S. I'm also a "not enough" and "too much" person; par for the course for writers? Or not?)
Oh please do get woo woo on dark matter :) I think there are so many side topics from these topics where I need to have you as my special guest…hmmm
Oh thank you! But I honestly don't have words to express my slippery feelings about that stuff, just a "sense of it." In other words, if I had a few hours and a few drinks in me I might spill, but sober and in print, too skittish.
Okay (see? I always want to come back), this isn't it, but it probably crosses in a Venn diagram with my increasing sense that everything has or is a form of consciousness.
I think you're onto something!
This was remarkable. Thanks for writing and sharing it.
That means so much to hear that, thank you!!
Being present is so key to happiness I find and I also fail at it so regularly, getting sucked it to the tyranny of the urgent. Good luck with “Live with intention. Be present. Look around while I wait in the Walgreens line. Maybe even make a friend or reach out to an old one. “
Practical enforcement helps - I installed the app that reduces my car insurance if I touch my phone zero times on any trip (not at stoplights, not in dead traffic, never) so that’s a good start.
We enforce no cell phone dinners with a pretty good hit rate at making it happen. Makes a huge difference. Mostly though it is me … too easy to get sucked into work in my “always on” job.
Meal time is sacred, glad you protect it
Horror Vacui as with my music process a great title for an unwritten album
Oh yes! Do it!
It's really tough to do fewer things, isn't it? I'm trying to do that now.
I want to fill every second with something, but sometimes you need a little bit of nothing for a while. I'm learning, but it's a slow, painful process that involves working on my "patience muscle", and not allowing boredom to take hold and dominate. Boredom is a double-edged sword: incredibly useful, but also incredibly dangerous.
Even my list of doing nothing contained all these somethings. I still think Aristotle is onto something and “nothing” doesn’t exist, but it is good to strive for less not more.