I listened to an interesting sermon in church last Sunday (it’s not online yet), entitled “The Irrational Season.” The minister’s message was that this is indeed a season filled with “irrational” thoughts, or at least ones that defy logic — it is a celebratation of the birth of a child from a woman who is [...]
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Today is the first day of the major network TV season, marked last night by the (sycophantic) Emmys. While I admire the accomplishments of people who are funny, awesome and talented, and have watched TV regularly since I was about five, I am dumping my cable box today. Blasphemy! Anathema! It’s the FIRST day of [...]
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I am — this close to signing up for two classes at the community college continuing ed program. In fact, I’m rather amazed at myself for even thinking I could do it, but the more I thought, the better I felt about it. The classes? oil painting and piano. !!!! I might as well take [...]
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I made it through this day. Today was the last day of a job I’ve had for five years, and change is tough. It’s for the better, in that it will be different. And this change has been two and a half years in the making. But change is, as I said, tough. What helped [...]
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(A birthday card post or three is long overdue. I will get to that over the weekend. Promise.) I try to live by the motto in the title. This too shall pass. The good and the bad. It all goes by so quickly. This was brought home to me in the early days of my [...]
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(31 of 50) My son has been alternatively-schooled and unschooled 11 years, and in public school for not quite one year. He was in a non-traditional daycare and kindergarten (Waldorf-inspired and Waldorf-proper) for the first six years, then in a charter school for five years that emphasized community responsibility, consensus building, theme-driven multi-year curriculum and [...]
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(30 of 50) First of all, unless I do three entries a day, I am not going to get to 50 by next Sunday, which IS MAH BIRFDAY!!!! yay! yay! I’m not mad enough to try that, or think that it would be worth reading. But I may continue with daily entries until I indeed [...]
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(24 of 50) It’s been a week on the new system for sp*m removal, and it seems to be working. I have missed several days of blogging, but then again, one strives for quality not quantity, right? Although, I am reminded of something a very good friend says (and maybe he’s quoting someone?): “There’s a [...]
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(13 of 50) While waiting to reach Nirvana, one must stay busy with everyday chores. “Chop wood, carry water” is the teaching that humbles even those on the verge of enlightenment. The utter necessity of handwork is at the heart of enlightenment and creativity. Having finished up my little movie project, and having watched it [...]
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(10 of 50) I used to write koans when I was in graduate school. Dealing with really brainy, weighty ideas and analytical thinking all day makes you want to play with abstractions and absurdities. Here are a few. (A koan is a brief saying or teaching. The more you think on it, the more the [...]
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