Category: Life

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  • On New Year Resolutions and brushing my teeth

    So today is the day where I am supposed to look ahead and talk about the things I want for the upcoming year. And I am tempted to do this because I have a lot of things that I want to strive for. If I am not anything else, I am a serial striver. I…

  • Goodbye 2015

    This has been a good year for me. It was very introspective. It was kind of spiritual. It was very peaceful. I did a lot of meditating and reading. I did a lot of questioning and sitting back and observing and being in the moment.  I did a lot of learning about myself. Here are…

  • Olympus OM1

    So now I am down to sharing drawings from past months because I literally have not picked up a pencil all week. The muse is a fickle bitch. Anytime she wants to come back – I’m waiting… I started drawing my camera collection several months ago. I think this drawing of my Olympus OM1 is…

  • On being goal less

    Last night at my meditation group I  got in a discussion about goalless practice. This is a Zen thing – the idea that the state you are in at this moment is perfect and goals imply that you are imperfect in this moment and that you need to somehow change. This idea of not having…

  • I mentioned last week that I was decluttering my house as per the instructions in The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up. Having moved on from clothes I decided to tackle my books. This wasn’t quite as hard as I imagined because I honestly don’t have a lot of books. Books are the one thing…