This post onCreative Generalist makes me laugh. Now I know what I am doing wrong. I want to be a generalist anyway.
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Archive for 23/07/2006
Driven by Daughter
Yes, she has her L’s and look at what a great driver she is. Ok, so she’s been practising for over a year. We drove to Melbourne yesterday. It was a long drive and she did an amazing job. I would say I tried to stay calm, but that would imply there was something to stress about and there really wasn’t. It was a pleasure.
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Patience
I received an amazing complement today. My masseur told me she thought I was a very patient person. She was surprised because I was having difficulty with a meridian that related to lack of patience. I knew it was true, but she was surprised. She used to work with me and found me to be a really patient person.
I am delighted that I have learnt to hide my impatience so well. I am amused that my body has given away the truth.
My massage was terrific though and I am feeling quite at ease in my body.
Perhaps I have become patient….
Anyway, that word keeps cropping up tonight. I’m seeing it everywhere, yet have no clue why.
In the spirit of it here are some quotes about patience, that are helping me to think it through.
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A particularly good : 07-28-06 the show with zefrank
Yes I am a fan of zefrank. He makes me laugh and I enjoyed this latest installment enough to want to share it.
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Forgetfulness. Amazing Animated Poetry. Billy Collins Animated Poem.
Haunting, almost frighteningly accurate poem.
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Eyelash Moon
Last night the moon was like a little glowing eyelash. It is like a blink of a moon. I had made my new moon goals so I could wink back. I hate it when I see that little slither of moon and I have not made the time to set the goal for the moon. I feel like I am too late by such a small slip of time. Last night I could simply enjoy it.
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37days: Change yardsticks
37days: Change yardsticks
I feel like I want to be a Buddhist when I read this recent post from the fabulous Patti Digh’s blog, 37 Days. Here is a little extract:
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E.M. Schumacher has written about “Buddhist Economics”: “While the materialist is mainly interested in goods, the Buddhist is mainly interested in liberation…It is not wealth that stands in the way of liberation, but the attachment to wealth; not the enjoyment of pleasurable things, but the craving for them.”
The modern economist, Schumacher continues, “is used to measuring the ‘standard of living’ by the amount of annual consumption, assuming…that a man who consumes more is ‘better off’ than a man who consumes less. A Buddhist economist would consider this approach excessively irrational: since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption.”
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She is an amazing writer. Read this post and don’t forget to read the challenge at the end, that’s always my favourite bit. I’m off to see how interesting I look!
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God’s in the Laundry
About 10 years ago there was a book around called ‘God’s in the Laundry’. It was published by a group called ‘Spirit Today’. I did a weekend course with these people. It was an interesting experience. I never read the book, but the title has haunted me. Every time I need to spend prolonged time in the laundry, the title pops into my head.
I don’t often spend a prolonged time in my laundry. I generally have a smooth system of processing laundry that flows along quite nicely. One of us puts a load on before work, hang it out after school, someone brings it in, we fold it and each take our piles to our respective spaces. It’s all very fleeting really.
Occasionally though, the system stumbles and the laundry becomes choked. That’s how it was this morning. I noticed several piles and baskets in various stages of the process and the clothes on the line were wet from overnight rain. I realised I needed to spend some time with God in the laundry.
Order is in process, not quite complete yet, but I feel better.
So I share with you the mundane workings of my home making and mind.
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Fleeting Weekend
The sun has been out and it has all been too leisurely. The weekend has passed me by and I have not managed to do all my usual routines, but I can’t think for a minute why not. It has just passed. I haven’t overslept, or cooked, or blogged a lot. I am really baffled as to where it has gone.
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