Anonymity enabled!

[preraphaelite]

An anonymity-enabled post, 'cause I'm having a hardish day and need some distraction

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[llemma]

I'm just back from a Quaker women's retreat and it was honestly amazing. Very #8. So maybe one answer is, make more room for the nonrational, the spiritual, the complicated, and everything else I can still see my ultrascientific mom rolling her eyes about anytime I mention it even inside my head.

[sanfranciscat]

For #5, I just discovered and read this: http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Slippers-Give-You-Blisters/dp/0590435019. If you want feel-good YA lit that will make you a little nostalgic for the good parts of high school, get it from the library and give it a shot.

And for #1 and #8, I agree with llema that weekends away that aren't overscheduled are really helpful for me. Camping trips, Quaker retreats - something where I'm not spending the whole time seeing friends or Doing Things, but I'm away from the internet and my normal life responsibilities for a bit, so I get some perspective.

[cos]

What if chasing future big things is part of being present?

Is it too late now to distract you?

[anonymous]

Small shameful confession:

The other night a slightly odd sexual thing that I myself do and enjoy came up in conversation and I said something dismissive and snickering about it. I thought I was years past that kind of nonsense! I didn't even consciously make the connection between what I was saying and my own life until I was in mid-sentence.

:shakes head sadly:

[anonymous]

Here's a thing I'm afraid to say nonymously, to someone else.

Stop creeping on me. It's never going to happen. I'm afraid to be around you.

[anonymous]

Me too.