Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why? (Author: Alice Bradley)
My imposed expectations, my illusion of control over my life, my inner feeling that I'm not measuring up.
Because I draw breath, my life is perfect, it is how it is meant to be at this moment.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Wonder
Wonder. How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year? (Author: Jeffrey Davis)
I try to cultivate wonder everyday. And to do so I have to stop, bring myself back to the present moment and see the beauty around me. I remember that everyone is a person with struggles and feelings and they deserve my love and compassion, not my censure and they are beautiful.
Picking up on the beauty in everything helps keep my wonder alive.
I try to cultivate wonder everyday. And to do so I have to stop, bring myself back to the present moment and see the beauty around me. I remember that everyone is a person with struggles and feelings and they deserve my love and compassion, not my censure and they are beautiful.
Picking up on the beauty in everything helps keep my wonder alive.
Moment
Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors). (Author: Ali Edwards)
Floating in Lake Huron watching the sunset this summer at Wasaga Beach. The colours were gold and vivid orange, grey clouds, blue lake, green trees. The space was vast and silent. It was a perfect moment, and I felt as if my heart could explode with love.
Even thinking about it now makes me smile and feel buoyant, weightless. I felt such pride that I have been graced to live in a country of such astounding beauty and size. This was no small sunset.
Floating in Lake Huron watching the sunset this summer at Wasaga Beach. The colours were gold and vivid orange, grey clouds, blue lake, green trees. The space was vast and silent. It was a perfect moment, and I felt as if my heart could explode with love.
Even thinking about it now makes me smile and feel buoyant, weightless. I felt such pride that I have been graced to live in a country of such astounding beauty and size. This was no small sunset.
Writing
Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? (Author: Leo Babauta)
The internet doesn't contribute to my writing. It is my television, a place where I can whittle away the hours. Not that I think I can eliminate it. But I would like to reduce my usage. As beautiful as my lappy is, it doesn't replace real people. Or nature.
The more time spent doing other things off the computer the more writing I want to do.
The internet doesn't contribute to my writing. It is my television, a place where I can whittle away the hours. Not that I think I can eliminate it. But I would like to reduce my usage. As beautiful as my lappy is, it doesn't replace real people. Or nature.
The more time spent doing other things off the computer the more writing I want to do.
#reverb10
I came across this website/concept reverb10 "Reflect on this year & Manifest What's Next"
Each day in December you get a prompt to think about and express. I'm going to try to do this!
December 1 – One Word. Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you’re choosing that word. Now, imagine it’s one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you? (Author: Gwen Bell)
Rest. I have spent much of this year on a hiatus from the grind. In so many ways this has been wonderful and needed and brought me to a lot of places I wouldn't have gone to. But as this year winds to an end I feel the urge to get back in the game and start running with the Elk again. 2011's word is going to be Action.
Each day in December you get a prompt to think about and express. I'm going to try to do this!
December 1 – One Word. Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you’re choosing that word. Now, imagine it’s one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you? (Author: Gwen Bell)
Rest. I have spent much of this year on a hiatus from the grind. In so many ways this has been wonderful and needed and brought me to a lot of places I wouldn't have gone to. But as this year winds to an end I feel the urge to get back in the game and start running with the Elk again. 2011's word is going to be Action.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
The Eagle is Landing- in a week
My MUM is coming! In one week tomorrow!!
I'm pretty excited- there is so much to do! We are thinking Pioneer Black Creek Village, the Rom, I'm trying to convince to come look at art with me at the AGO (don't think she'll go for it though, but it's David! Degas! Delacroix!!!).
I need to get ready: clean things, maybe buy some food to have in the house, book a zipcar to get to the airport, ummm what else? What other things should I be doing? Put sheets on my bed?
What do you do when your parent(s) are coming to visit? Any good places in the city we should check out? Mum likes a good knit cafe and/or wool shop. We're not very keen on doing the touristy things. Any good day trips one can think of?
I'm pretty excited- there is so much to do! We are thinking Pioneer Black Creek Village, the Rom, I'm trying to convince to come look at art with me at the AGO (don't think she'll go for it though, but it's David! Degas! Delacroix!!!).
I need to get ready: clean things, maybe buy some food to have in the house, book a zipcar to get to the airport, ummm what else? What other things should I be doing? Put sheets on my bed?
What do you do when your parent(s) are coming to visit? Any good places in the city we should check out? Mum likes a good knit cafe and/or wool shop. We're not very keen on doing the touristy things. Any good day trips one can think of?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
And it's SUMMER!
Uhhh ok, I could be a bit late on this post. BUT with the heat wave that's hitting the city as of 3 hours prior to the 1st of September, I call SUMMER SUCKAHS!
It's been a rather glorious summer, since in all technicalities it's been like a 9 month long summer with perhaps a wee 2 month spring in there. According to weather Canada Toronto as seen HIGHER than average rainfall, but we didn't notice. Know why? Cause the rain here is SMART- it falls at night time. Or it does 1/3 of the month in one day. This is something I can handle. Because the rest of the time, it was glorious, glorious sunshine.
This is where I break into that song "Sunnny days, taking the clouds away..." because while it is summer I am perpetually 6. And this summer was the most indulgent summer I've had since I was a wee pup of oooh 25, when I last had a summer off. That's right, I retired for the summer.
You may, or may not (I would suspect may if you are my wonderful parents who helped me out in such a kind fashion, or their friends who probably had to listen to tales of my ineptness from them) that I have been "underemployed" this past summer. Although, in my mind is there such thing as underemployed? I mean really? I like to take a line from a really racist joke: the only good job is a dead job.
While I'd prefer to say- "currently retired" rather than unemployed, the main thing is I've been a slacker bum this summer. And I really enjoyed it. I mean REALLY. If it's possible to do, summer is the time to do it. The living is cheap and easy.
Bored? Go outside, ride your bike, reorganize your apartment several times, pester friends and relatives online and in person, the possibilities are endless.
Things that I did this summer (in Toronto, I think we've covered the South Pacific summer well enough, it's sooo early 2010) include: perfect some rather fantastic tan lines, open a new bank account with no fees, pay off my BCSL(clearly it wasn't giant), write letters to my Nanny, go to a COTTAGE for the first time (more on that later), go to the CNE for the first time, have backyard bbq's, chill with my super fantastical friends Gwen Styles and Heavy Me, go to the Dentist (seems trivial but it had been far too long), go to a movie in the middle of the day by myself, meet a few new people (most of them crazy), hear my friends band ROCK IT numerous times and eat a corn dog.
I'll be summing up individual excitements such as COTTAGING!!!! and my summer styles in separate posts- which I will get done shortly. I hope!
Travel has been, obviously, kept to a minimum, I think the only time I was out of the city (besides brief excursions to Scarberia and Miserysauga- it's ok I made it back alright) was up to Wasaga Beach. But there are plenty of beaches in and about Toronto that help to satisfy the beach bum in me. Although, I'll give you shout outs west coast- I miss a summer time beach fire on the ocean.
So what's the moral? It's been a fun, restful, sunny, did I mention fun? Summer. But it's closing out and it'll be back to the grind. I think I realized at one point this could be my last hurrah, that years will stretch out in front of me of being overemployed (errr employed at all) where my Summers would be spent sitting wistfully in an office staring out at all those jerkfaces who get to be outside. So this Summer, I WAS that jerkface.
And Summer in Toronto is where it is at, especially if you have a backyard, a big park nearby, a bike that works, and some kick-ass friends to spend time with. So thanks everyone and all for making this Summer so great!
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| Blackberry Pie I made! |
This is where I break into that song "Sunnny days, taking the clouds away..." because while it is summer I am perpetually 6. And this summer was the most indulgent summer I've had since I was a wee pup of oooh 25, when I last had a summer off. That's right, I retired for the summer.
You may, or may not (I would suspect may if you are my wonderful parents who helped me out in such a kind fashion, or their friends who probably had to listen to tales of my ineptness from them) that I have been "underemployed" this past summer. Although, in my mind is there such thing as underemployed? I mean really? I like to take a line from a really racist joke: the only good job is a dead job.
While I'd prefer to say- "currently retired" rather than unemployed, the main thing is I've been a slacker bum this summer. And I really enjoyed it. I mean REALLY. If it's possible to do, summer is the time to do it. The living is cheap and easy.
Bored? Go outside, ride your bike, reorganize your apartment several times, pester friends and relatives online and in person, the possibilities are endless.
Things that I did this summer (in Toronto, I think we've covered the South Pacific summer well enough, it's sooo early 2010) include: perfect some rather fantastic tan lines, open a new bank account with no fees, pay off my BCSL(clearly it wasn't giant), write letters to my Nanny, go to a COTTAGE for the first time (more on that later), go to the CNE for the first time, have backyard bbq's, chill with my super fantastical friends Gwen Styles and Heavy Me, go to the Dentist (seems trivial but it had been far too long), go to a movie in the middle of the day by myself, meet a few new people (most of them crazy), hear my friends band ROCK IT numerous times and eat a corn dog.
I'll be summing up individual excitements such as COTTAGING!!!! and my summer styles in separate posts- which I will get done shortly. I hope!
Travel has been, obviously, kept to a minimum, I think the only time I was out of the city (besides brief excursions to Scarberia and Miserysauga- it's ok I made it back alright) was up to Wasaga Beach. But there are plenty of beaches in and about Toronto that help to satisfy the beach bum in me. Although, I'll give you shout outs west coast- I miss a summer time beach fire on the ocean.
So what's the moral? It's been a fun, restful, sunny, did I mention fun? Summer. But it's closing out and it'll be back to the grind. I think I realized at one point this could be my last hurrah, that years will stretch out in front of me of being overemployed (errr employed at all) where my Summers would be spent sitting wistfully in an office staring out at all those jerkfaces who get to be outside. So this Summer, I WAS that jerkface.
And Summer in Toronto is where it is at, especially if you have a backyard, a big park nearby, a bike that works, and some kick-ass friends to spend time with. So thanks everyone and all for making this Summer so great!
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