First a very quick intro to this post:
Tonight Maya and I got to talking about the purpose of Surprise Industries (our new baby business, with Kat as the other mommy) and we got on the topic of surprise in general. We realized that surprises are relics of our childhoods and that giving and receiving surprises [...]
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Wonderful little life surprises… keeping your childhood in adulthood.
Posted in Thoughts, tagged happiness, surprise, surprises on November 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My Dog
Posted in Observations, Questions, Thoughts, tagged dog, dogs on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am crazy about my dog. I am like one of those ANNOYING mommies always talking about her wonderful her baby is and showing pictures of the baby, taken at most a week apart. I do everything for my dog. Her comfort comes before mine. It’s scary. But it makes me wonder. WHY? I [...]
To Kill or not to Kill?
Posted in Questions, Thoughts, tagged dogs, cats, dog, cat, animals, animal, euthanasia, mercy killing on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lately, I have been thinking about euthanasia. I know it’s a tired subject, I’ve even written about it in a high school persuasive essay, but you’re sort of forced to think about it when faced with it. For example, putting an animal to “sleep”. Since the brains of animals and those of [...]
Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.
Posted in Observations, Thoughts, tagged flow state, love, peak performance on March 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »
In my States of Consciousness class, we recently discussed flow states. This is the state of mind characterized by intense focus on a given activity and the feeling that nothing in the world exists. Flow state is related to peak performance–that sensation of high alertness and complete lack of self consciousness in which we [...]
Life, For the Record: home run or nuffin’
Posted in Life Update, Questions, Thoughts, tagged emotion regulation, happiness, life, love, play on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago I began this piece. I never posted it because it was late when I wrote it and I felt self-pitying, which shut me down, merged me into my very own robotic, self-analyzing soul-lacker for hurting my own damn feelings. I really wanted myself to feel better, and for the sake of [...]
For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll
Posted in Life Update, Thoughts, tagged commitment, love, marriage on March 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today during a chat that was supposed to be five minutes and that ended up being almost two hours (of course), Maya–yes, the Maya of this blog–mentioned a conversation she had with someone who said that “marriage for her was a symbol of promising to work as hard as possible to make the relationship stay [...]
Privacy in a glass house.
Posted in Thoughts, tagged glass, open, privacy, sharing, transparency on February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My mother bolted the door with four heavy locks, and my sister strolled around the house naked. And that’s me.
On the one hand, I am a very private person. I am quick to smile but slow to warm. My secrets are so secret that I wouldn’t even write them in the snow during a storm. [...]
Creating and recreating the wheel.
Posted in Ideas, Thoughts, tagged creativity, recreating the wheel on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been thinking lately about the advantages and disadvantages of “recreating the wheel.” On the one hand, it is a waste of time and energy, but on the other hand all creators of wheels learn from the wheel creating process and they may even make a better wheel because their imaginations are not held back [...]
