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The Whole Village was cheering
There is a great story about a natural labor over at Dooce. In part 2 she is talking about her assistant who just had a baby. She had a bunch of people in the labour room being completetly silent between contractions and then jumping into action and cheering and helping during the contractions. The cheering [...]
Merry Christmas to me!
I’m working on a fun project which is taking me out of my comfort zone, and thinking, searching, learning about what other things I want to do next. I’m feeling lucky lately because help and opportunities are coming my way (no, no full time job yet, but I do have a house-sitting gig!) and this [...]
What do you want the most in all the world?
Eve Ensler says that “When we give, in the world, what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.” What do you want most in the world, and how do you give it? I’m figuring out, figuring out, still figuring out what to do with my wee one wild and [...]
Memory and what I want to remember (supermemo)
I just finished reading a fascinating article about memory at Wired magazine by Gary Wolf. Are you interested in memory? Whenever I see ads for memory systems, I’m never interested. It looks incredibly boring and the processes themselves usually involve detailed information that I would need to learn and remember. On the other hand, I [...]
Lonliness, church, community
One of my friend’s favorite authors, David Foster Wallace, died. He killed himself. She sent me an interview that he had done with Salon about his novel Infinite Jest. DFW: I wanted to do something real American, about what it’s like to live in America around the millennium. Salon: And what is that like? DFW: [...]
A Gym after my own heart
If our true will is simply droppin’ some fat to satisfy a scale, then we should be damned to a life of obligatory fitness. If our workouts are rituals of the celebration of movement, ability, and therefore life, we’re pretty magickal. -Physical Subculture I have a vague yearning and I’m not sure where it’s leading [...]
Clues
I’m looking for clues about what I want to do next with all this life energy I got going on. I’m deciding if I want to take a NIA class this summer. I looked up NIA articles online and found one that gave me a sudden tingle in my stomach and get tears in my [...]
Day 6 (Can it be?! Her mood lifts as the end of work approaches. In other news, correlation does’t prove causation.)
Thoughts: * I have a computer like Carrie Bradshaw now! I saw Sex and the City tonight and when I got home I came over to write about my day just like she does on the show and I realized that I have a little desk with a little laptop on it just like she [...]
Day 10 (10 more days of work to go before the holidays)
Only 9:11 and I’m crying already. I had to close the door to my office. I’m not crying about work though, I’m crying about my roommate telling me that “we are opposite in so many ways” and the implied meaning that I am not her favorite person in the world, and the how that ties [...]
You can’t say you can’ play (Part 2)
Last year I almost stopped going to church because I felt so harassed by someone. I finally had to learn to tell him that he couldn’t hang out with me. I wrote about a lunch I had with him last year: I had an awkward “young adult” lunch last week after church. See, there are [...]
