A partner can make all the difference in the world. I love working with what I have, finding a way of making it fit somehow, but Joy and I, despite clicking less well as humans together than Pam and I had, rocked CII and got done by noon. It's actually a little terrifying thinking about what a difference it made here, and what a difference the same ( Read more... )

Projects, projects, projects. And ESAR. And work. And completely improvised but effective breath meditation. And so little time for anything else ( Read more... )

It's another ESAR week. I don't feel as psychologically prepared for CII as I did for CI, but I don't feel unprepared for it, either. I do expect it to completely beat me up ( Read more... )

In a conversation Mike and I were having about hosting (which is something I have a lot of anxiety about), he asked me what would make me happy, and I said something about the anxiety making me want to hide under a table and not deal with people for hours. He said, "Ok, but I asked you what would make you happy, not what would make you comfortable ( Read more... )

Went snowshoeing today with P and William and Erin. I loved being out there. I feel like my perception of what my body can do has really changed after ESAR (which kept making me think of Avatar). It was a really pretty hike and made me want to go cross-country skiing. Anyone? Though I guess that's what the wabi outdoors list is for ( Read more... )

It's an optimistic beginning to 2010 (Jesus, 2010? Futurific ( Read more... )

I'm really enjoying watching Possu and I go from being rather terrible dance partners to starting to mesh quite well. There's something really fulfilling about that ( Read more... )

(More from The Devil and Miss Prym)

Once a year, the inhabitants shut themselves up in their houses, made two lists, turned to face the highest mountain and then raised their first list to the heavens ( Read more... )

I seem to have gotten myself involved with working backstage for a theater. How does that even happen?

It's not the case that when we are certain we stop paying attention. It /is/ the case though, I think, that we often stop paying attention in the same way. The tendency is to 1) pay somewhat less attention than before, 2) focus the attention that we are paying to factors that either directly support or deny our conviction, ie factors are directly ( Read more... )