I read an Opinion piece in the NY Times (gift link) by David Brooks titled, The Junkification of American Life. While there is a certain satisfaction in the resonance (“You’re preaching to the choir! Amen!”), reading yet another piece on the overwhelming oppression of our collective dopamine addictions is… uninspiring, to put it gently.
We were shopping the other day in a sort-of-department store, and my husband found a sh...
Do we talk to each other about the things we love? The things that inspire us? We can get waylaid in conversations about schedules and work and kids activities, and forget to share the things that truly ignite our energy & imagination.
The #1 gift that I think all moms want is consideration. To consider her and be considerate of her own desires, pains, weariness, joys.
Spring is peeking in (in some places) and eventually coming (in others). One thing I know I will not be doing… is gardening. For many years, I didn’t do gardening well, and I did not do well by gardening. The sum of it all was essentially: I would rather spend my attention elsewhere (and I did… to the wilting demise of my unattended plants). For years, though, I liked the idea of gardening, and so I thought that if I only had the right tools, the right plants, the right materials, then the project would be a success.
