barrington99@gmail.com Today, by the way, is my first day back at school. And, as often, I am feeling unprepared (thus my keying in on the the word “preparation”) physically, mentally, and perhaps most of all, emotionally. I have a class this morning that I don’t quite trust. If it’s not immediately fabulous, I plan to go … Read more
And, I think, my first of three words: Preparation The specific intention I have been thinking of is getting all our ducks in a row-presentation wise. Paul does not have a website yet–and much as I try to let him run his own life and career, this makes me almost insane. So many job postings … Read more
Go to bed earlier. The ideal would be 11pm I think. That would translate to a wake-up time of about 6:30 am, which would be really cool. However, it’s 1:25 a.m. and we just got home and I’m doing my staring-at-the-computer-screen-decompression thing. And, you know, writing a little blog post here. I’m a little sweaty … Read more
Interrupting my my series of posts on New Years intentions (yes it will be a series I believe), yet in the vein of the new year-new page spirit in which I am writing them, I’d like to say I’m happy to see my friend Rosie back in blogging action with an excellent post wherein she … Read more
Volunteer It’s not that I didn’t do things for my community last year: I was part of a human wave because a friend had organized a huge environmental awareness event for 350.org. Another friend did a charity show for the Downtown Women’s shelter, I went twice. Friends directed documentaries about Darfur, and modern architecture, and … Read more
I just read another article about how willpower exists in finite quantities. So if you have have to expend a lot of willpower to complete a task, there is less willpower to resist the next temptation. People who have to watch a boring video and are then assigned a boring task are less likely to … Read more
One of the things that I like about writing is researching. I’m working on a piece right now, as I may have mentioned, that involves some aliens. And I’ve thought for awhile that the protagonist might work with a guy who is into conspiracies and alien cover-ups and stuff. I want to really ground his … Read more
Today, someone in Taipei reached me via googling “Two Ways of Seeing a River.” Mark Twain lives. And me? I made it back to the gym, and my Sunday morning yoga class today after more than a week off due to illness. That’s nice. I’m in a weird mood, half sad, half gearing up for … Read more
May all beings be happy May all beings be safe and healthy May all beings live in peace Happy holidays
“Define happiness, someone asked me recently. Absorption, I said instantly, and anything that gives me an inner life and a sense of spaciousness, intimacy and silence.” Pico Iyer in this article I half-read in the L.A. Times. I read it, then forgot where I read it, then went looking for it, which is how I … Read more