Serenity… an expedition


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I decided to trust myself today

What an odd sensation!
See, I was writing a promised (to me) article on Haiti and it just wasn’t going right. Start, stop. Delete. Start, stop. Delete. Rinse and repeat.
Finally I realized that there was a whole nother way of looking at things hovering at the edge of my mind, that I had been ignoring because… [...]

Monday, January 25th

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that…

… if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. Anne Lamott
I should have found this quote the other day but it will do just as well for today. Dawn is sometimes a long time breaking.
I had other [...]

Monday, January 11th

Sufficient unto the day…

I’m sitting here opening and closing various posts I have in draft – writing a little here, changing a little there and, in general, being completely uninspired and not accomplishing much at all. And all the while – for days in fact – that phrase has been running through my mind:
“Sufficient unto the day… ”
I [...]

Monday, August 24th

things undone and my blogroll

Which is also undone, for that matter.
Looking around my house this afternoon I noticed that my fridge is freshly cleaned but my kitchen is a mess; all the laundry is washed and dried, but not put away; my mom is all washed and in bed, but her bathroom is only partly cleaned; cat is fed, [...]

Sunday, July 12th