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I’m committing to a bedtime of 11pm

Here’s a nice, sooth­ing video about get­ting to bed on time:


For me, I’ll need to avoid using the com­puter after 10pm.

Style Statement

Look­ing at the Style State­ment web­site, it occurs to me how much we all want to make good deci­sions. We want to avoid “fol­low­ing the wrong god home” and miss­ing our star. (thank you William Stafford) I would love two words to hold onto. And I also think I will still have to make the effort to wake myself up every day, take a deep breath and notice how I am moment by moment. That seems less secure than two words.

I think what would pro­vide me with the secure feel­ing that I’m in touch with myself and mak­ing deci­sions from a cen­tered, authen­tic place is jour­nal­ing every morn­ing and evening. I’m going to add that to my morn­ing and evening checklist!

Religious Imagery in Battlestar Gallactica

Warn­ing: Spoil­ers after the jump

Con­tinue read­ing Reli­gious Imagery in Bat­tlestar Gallactica

Habits

Just start. Tell your­self, “Do it now!” Make it a mantra. Don’t mess around with tools, with dis­trac­tions, with any­thing that will get in the way of doing this task. Strip away every­thing but the task, and get going!

Watch Swatch

The Conquering Lion

The Con­quer­ing Lion by Lau­ryn Hill

Lyrics

Con­tinue read­ing The Con­quer­ing Lion

Theme in Yellow

bramble [?bræmb?l] vb: to gather blackberries

I spot the hills

With yel­low balls in autumn.

I light the prairie cornfields

Orange and tawny gold clusters

And I am called pumpkins.

On the last of October

When dusk is fallen

Chil­dren join hands

And cir­cle round me

Singing ghost songs

And love to the har­vest moon;

I am a jack-o’-lantern

With ter­ri­ble teeth

And the chil­dren know I am fooling.

- Carl Sandburg

I searched for this poem for years! I found it today (Nov 21, 2010) at Poem Hunters.

 

Happy Octo­ber 2011, from your 2010 Novem­ber self!

* Creative Commons License photo credit: jenny down­ing