Hi 🍃 Thanks for coming to my blog! My main goal here is to discover how I can be more authentic to myself through explorations in writing. I also write becau...
I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challenge me! I have no idea where or why the whole thing started, but here we are. I think this came at a perfect time, as I'm trying to re-establish a blogging practice. It's nice having something like this since writing on a fixed outline is easy, almost like eating a cookie. It means I…
Lately, my son has been obsessed with asking us to tell him stories. At first, I eagerly jumped on every opportunity to do so, but now I just find it tiresome. At the same time, I can't really say no to him, right? After all, he's not doing anything wrong, and stories are healthy for his brain. Or are they? Yesterday, I came to the conclusion that, in fact, it is fine for me to tell him no . After…
For the past month or so, I've been trying to craft (for it is an act of craftsmanship) a morning routine for myself. In an ideal world, it would look something like this: wake up around 5:20am (kids usually wake up around 7am so this gives me ~1:30 hours), get up and to some yoga 1 , go upstairs and make myself a coffee, drink coffee and write until kids get up. it could either be journaling or…
Woke up pretty early today, around 4:30 AM, and didn’t manage to go back to sleep. But all is good. I spent pretty much the whole time listening to Brandon Sanderson’s Rhythms of War , and it was awesome! It’s cool when an author can evoke a whole range of emotions and even move you to tears with just skill and imagination. It also helps that I was dedicating my full attention to the audiobook.…
So yeah, hi. Hello. Ahem... Good to see you again! It's been a while, and I hope things have been going well for you. Not so long ago, my second son was born, and I stopped writing here. I kept journaling most days, whenever I managed to convince myself to get out of bed early enough, but I didn't feel like I had the time or mental energy to consistently write blog posts, keep up with what my…
I finally started reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I've tried to start this book many times before, but I always stopped in the first chapter or so because I felt that the author was being unnecessarily airy and, more importantly, he directly claimed that he ended up in this semi enlightened state but doesn't rightly know how he got there. This point was the point where I always stopped,…
Yesterday, around 1:30 AM, I woke up with a feeling that I needed to vomit. I tried getting up, but I immediately felt faint and did indeed faint. I was a bit sick all over the place. Thankfully, it was very little , so it was mostly easy to clean. However, it did leave me feeling weak. I still feel weak, though it's slowly getting better. Now, the fainting itself was not too bad. It was…
I was going through my Obsidian notes and noticed that there are a couple of almost-finished posts that are actually quite good—more than a couple, in fact. My intuition tells me it’s both good and proper to dedicate some time to cleaning these up. I also noticed that many of these drafts are stale . The same goes for the ideas; I no longer care to write about them. Or at least, I don’t right now.…
I use a lot of emojis when I write (especially chat), and it has always struck me as interesting that most people around me don’t. “Don’t they want to convey how they feel about this?” I ask myself. So much so that, for a long time, I thought my overuse of emojis came from a needy, co-dependent part of me that wanted to be pleasant to others and avoid any misunderstandings by being extra clear…
Earlier today I was reading some new posts by Visa . There’s not much to say about that, except that he uses pretty normal words and writes very well. This might seem like an odd comment, but it stems from my reading of another post, A Brief Case on Bearblog. The author of that post is clearly a talented and experienced writer who, it must be said, writes very (very) well. However, the words they…