Thought for Today
Most of my thinking happens on a yellow legal pad. I am thankful for those yellow legal pads that help bring my thoughts to life!
Thankful To Be Grateful
Sunday began November and the season of Thanksgiving. I love this time of year – the falling leaves, the cooler temperatures, big pots of warm soup, and the flannel sheets back on my bed. I also like the idea of being intentional about giving thanks, but, it’s confession time, I don’t really like the Thanksgiving holiday. It always seems like way too much work resulting in way too much food for way too little enjoyment. By the time we…
Let’s Talk About Today
My day began early and with the following two posts on Facebook:1. “The time needs to change. Getting to school in the dark is just not right.”2. Note to self: Beginning a 7:30 ear training class with harmonic dictation in the minor mode is not a good way to start the day.And so went my day. It had an early and rough start, but by my 9:00 class, things were moving along fairly well. Five classes later, I was done teaching…
Time Passages
Yesterday marked the year anniversary of my dad’s death. In many ways it feels like just last week rather than last year, making me painfully aware of just how quickly time flies. When I look back at my posts here as well as my own journaling, I realize that time really is the overarching theme in my life right now, with the majority of my thoughts being about how I spend what time I have. I am definitely one of…
Where I Work
Today’s Capture Your 365 photo prompt is “Where I Work.” I was excited by this prompt because it encouraged me to take photos in a place where I normally am not thinking about my camera. The sad part here is that it is the place that I have come nearly every work day for the past 23 years and of which I have very few photos. As I walked in to school this morning, I was thinking about the possibilities…
What’s Been Going On
What the saying? “Life is what happens while we are busy making plans.” I made the big pronouncement that my plan was to post here regularly. I guess the truth is that I don’t yet have enough of a trend to define “regularly” but in my head that meant almost every day if not every day. And here it is five days since my last post. So what’s been going on? Lots, actually. The biggest obstacle to posting has been…
Revolving Door
One thing that I have learned, because the lesson has been shown to me time and time again, is that no doors ever really shut in life. Our existence involves continuous movement, an unchoreographed dance, through a constantly revolving door. The variables that impact where that door leads include how quickly the door turns, how we embrace our perspective at the present point of rotation, and who else is making their way through the door with us. Today was bittersweet…
Jumping Back In!
The calendar says that fall will be here in two days, but for my creative self, it is spring that is dawning after a five month dormant season here. Unlike the plants and animals who know that they need fall and winter to rest and rejuvenate, I was unaware that my spirit was longing for that time. I have been doing other creative things, including other types of writing, but in the past few weeks, I have been hit…
2/365-3 Think Over
“Don’t Think. Just Be.” The left-brained academic in me often overpowers the creative free-spirit that also resides within but only occasionally is set free to come out for recess. I am always thinking, planning, trying to learn, hoping to improve whatever I think needs improvement, which often feels like almost everything. For Christmas I was given the book Photography as Meditation by Torsten Hoffman. I picked it up early today just to take a peek. I was sitting near a…