awake and dreaming
I am of two minds. Awake and in a dream state. I haven’t had five hours of straight sleep for two weeks. This state is no blissful Maryland. It is a foggy and distracted state like coastal Washington. I’m tired, eating badly and not exercising. I need to shave my legs. I keep forgetting to [...]
small is beautiful
“Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful.”
– E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics [...]
Where Do You Live?
Everything is changing – and fast. Our money, our climate, our connections. I find myself longing for the good old days – bygone days remembered through rose-coloured glasses when everyone could afford to buy a house, when cities valued green spaces and parks over condo developments and when people talked on rotary phones that hung [...]
The View From Here
Looking out over my life I see patterns. I tend to rush into things without thinking them through fully. I have a stubborn stick-to-itiveness when it comes to problem solving. I’m continually bumping up against the lesson that it’s not all about me, and yet, I can be very generous and would do anything for [...]
The Power of Baby Steps
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. ~ Louis Sachar
It took most of us months to learn how to walk, but once we did, our first baby steps were joyous, wobbly and unstoppable – that is until we discovered [...]
Fluxed?
“We crave an unbroken line between who we are and what we do.”
~ Diana Baur, A Certain Simplicity
I am in a constant state of flux about who I really am. I wonder. Am I a series of descriptives and labels that have long been hung on me? Am I really that bossy, bold, [...]
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