If you can use the disruption that you are experiencing to create new positive habits. Great. Go for it. Wake up at 4:30 every morning, do your yoga, eat your almond milk muesli, and crack out a relaxing 1000 words before most people are out bed. If on the other hand, you are distracted by constantly changing rules, responsibilities, and exponential graphs, maybe give yourself a break.
Read MorePhotography, drawing and writing are based around noticing. You can see something without noticing. We often do. We see far too many things to notice them all. Something can be right in the middle of your vision - you are looking right at it, but you don’t notice. That’s normal. Perhaps even necessary.
Read MoreClearing our overgrown garden. Making room for us and for new plants.
I think of apple trees, figs, and pears. A grape vine. Fruits and vegetables to pick.
We are followed by a robin. Buzzing and flashing at us and acting completely unafraid.
It finds a fat grub.
What was the greenhouse is just the brick foundation. Parallel raised beds with a central path.
As we clear we learn to chop the brush into small pieces to take up less space.
Read MoreI often struggle to answer the question “what do you do?”
It’s a simple question but like the innocuous enough seeming “where are you from?” for many people there isn’t a single concise answer.
Read MoreBlogging every day has been easier and more worthwhile than I thought it would be.
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