“Why do people put up lights?”
The lad, he asks a good question. I know his is based on the silly ads from Target this year, combined with a green sensibility that he’s gaining from the last ten years of science education and marketing about climate change.
But it’s an opportunity to point out to him that [...]
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote a marvelous book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. In it, he describes the ease and flow of our spirits when we have achieved an optimal level of competence in doing our lives and our jobs. With flow comes the success of doing a job well, but also the intense focus [...]
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Part of traveling is finding the unexpected, the serendipity, the extraordinary. Though we plan and plan for everything to “go without a hitch,” sometimes hitches make the journey very interesting. And sometimes, they just make it longer.
We got back to the airport to discover our car battery dead as a great box of dead battery. [...]
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It’s after Christmas and the damage on the wallet is still rolling in, but soon the financial bleeding will stop (before the tax bleed begins). The house is still a wreck, and dusting the darn nutcracker is fiddly. One entire box of lights hasn’t been put up in two years, and didn’t get up again [...]
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Some of us, I guess, require a lot more than a simple list or a decision to make a committment to change. We feed off of the collective energy put into New Year’s Eve. It is an impressive display, isn’t it, creating a lot of momentum for whatever project is at hand.
But what if today [...]
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Now I’m really behind… having skipped another day, with no catch-ups. Ah well, the sop to my conscience is that at least I’m busy and living well, rather than grinching in the background.
Yesterday, we drove up from San Diego to Los Angeles… I intentionally wanted to take all day. We took the PCH from Camp [...]
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The above phrase is a medical school rubric for simple procedures, such as starting an IV, doing IM injections and other technical work, up to and including invasive surgical procedures. While this model is sometimes disputed for safety and confidence issues, in non-invasive procedures and operations, such as knitting, painting, sewing, baking bread and embroidery, [...]
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The best thing about Christmas for me is the quiet. There’s a hush in the neighborhood and everyone seems to have some place to be. Those who don’t, of course, are hiding somewhere, sulking, mourning, idling away the day so that it doesn’t hurt too much.
We’re flying out of a busy airport tonight, and I [...]
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Yes, that’s what I said. Torso Pants. Check them out quickly because they are going away SOON. TorsoPants.com
There are so many many reasons for ordering something from them, if you can. I believe in encouraging creativity in any form, and I also promote laughter. That particular type of humor gets me nearly every time.
What kind [...]
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It dawned on me that I need to work on an “artist’s statement.” Which isn’t the typical kind of me-me-me statement about my aesthetic. It’s more of a discussion (treatise?) on why creativity is so important to me and why it can be, should be vital to others.
I have a new book from Amazon entitled [...]
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