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Birthdays… who needs them?

09 Tuesday Apr 2024

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“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”
― John Glenn

Last month, in the midst of finishing an audit, tax returns and other work deadlines, I turned 58 years old.

58 is just such a foreign number to me.  I don’t feel it at all.  Perhaps it is denial.  

My twin sister and I celebrated by going to dinner at Sergio’s, our favorite Italian restaurant. We went with Michael and our cousin.  It was fun, we had delicious food and talked about a trip that we plan to take together in the summer.

Birthdays have a special way of reminding us that this one life is finite.  Our days here are numbered and we owe it to ourselves to make the most of all our days.  That is my plan.

I don’t always succeed.  Some days feel wasted.  I am one of those people that want to see results, that feels that I need to be always productive.  But life is not about results, it is about “ing”, the doing, the living, the trying. And that could be just ‘nothing”.

On those days that feel wasted, I look back, and I see the details.  I look at the nothingness of the day and I see the immensity of it. And I am grateful.

Life is in those little details. Life is the experiences, but also the down time. Yes, it is just as it sounds:  I am justifying and giving permission for me to do nothing 🙂

“I have a peculiar capacity for doing nothing and yet enjoying myself.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

 

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Eclipse – April 8, 2024

08 Monday Apr 2024

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“If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

Two photos from today’s eclipse:

This first one I took in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.  I just pointed the phone to the ski.

New Smyrna Beach, FL

 

This second one was taken by one of my sister’s co-worker in Manhattan, NY.  He put the special glasses in front of the camera.

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ― Anton Chekhov

 

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Forever editing

08 Monday Apr 2024

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“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
― Gandhi

Hi friends,

Just saying hello, and a promise to do better.

I have been writing a lot since my last post, but, as you can see, I have not been publishing.  I am back to my old habit of not being able to hit the Publish button.  I am caught in that vicious cycle of forever editing.

It seems that a post is never good enough for the world to see.  I know it is silly.  No one really cares about grammatically perfect posts… well, I think. And yet, I struggle with that.

I still plan on finishing some of those posts.  Yes, I said that before.  I am still cleaning my Drafts folder, but in the last month, I just managed to add more to it.

I do sound like a broken record.  I have been at this very moment before.  Some old habits are hard to break, and the “writing a post and not publishing it”, has become a very bad habit that keeps wining over me.

My new old plan is to just hit publish when I get to the end.  I need to stop the forever editing cycle. So be prepared for short posts.  Perhaps some days I will just post a quote or a picture, just to develop the habit of publishing every day or at least every other day.

“Old habits never die. They just get harder to justify.” ― Kalan Chapman Lloyd, Home Is Where Your Boots Are

 

 

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