There's so much I don't know...and I'm not much of a strategist.  We all have things at which we're experts (or nearly so), things about which we have an average understanding, things we really don't get at all...and many variations in between.  I'm ok with that, as long as I continue to learn.

"Edmund was already feeling uncomfortable from having eaten too many sweets, and when he heard that the Lady he had made friends with was a dangerous witch he felt even more uncomfortable. But he still wanted to taste that Turkish Delight more than he wanted anything else."
--The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."
--The Weight of Glory

Creative impulses

A friend of mine was reminiscing today about a time, years ago, when he felt compelled to draw and paint...and how long it's been since he's felt that.  I can relate to that.  What I miss is being absorbed in working on a piece and the high of succeeding in getting the results I wanted...looking at it and thinking *I* made that happen.  For me, something close to that feeling still can be found in my job, when it's going well and I'm accomplishing things I care about.  But I'd like to come full circle...let go of some of the compulsion to get things done and just let myself focus on something purely creative again...just for the joy of it.

Productivity

Work is crazy busy these days.  Everyone's up to their eyeballs in work, trying to figure out how we'll get it all done.   It's exciting!  Never a dull moment...all that stuff.  I'm stretching myself, getting things done but still have so much more to do.  I've never loved my job more.

System overload

How many more directions can I go at once?  And that's just at work!  Is someone out there just waiting for me to cry "uncle?"  If so...it's not happening.  (This is the part where I break into singing "I Will Survive")

Ready, set...go?

I've been thinking that it's time to stop procrastinating some things that need to be said and done...both at home and at work.  When I was a kid, I always thought grown-ups just automatically did everything they needed to.  Maybe subconsciously I'm still trying to resist growing up.  But having things nag your brain is exhausting and defeating.  Ready...set...go!

Long time, no see

Wow. I can't believe it's been 8 months since I've posted anything here. High time I started again. I miss it. I've always enjoyed this as an outlet for my thoughts. No one reads this anyway...especially after such a long break. So...time to return to posting my thoughts and happenings here for my own enjoyment. It's definitely got something over Facebook.

"You're never a failure until you stop trying."

- Mike Ditka

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

- Henry David Thoreau

The satisfaction of a good cry

Isidore of Seville, in interpreting the Psalms in the seventh century, seconded the idea that tears produce satiety. "Lamenting," he wrote, "is the food of souls."

-- Tom Lutz, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears

I am "card correspondence challenged." Can't seem to get a handle on the sending of cards to properly acknowledge people and events. When I should send a nice thank you, get well, sympathy or birthday card I have the thought but then never get around to doing it. Email saves me on the birthday thing most of the time. But on the paper card front, I literally have about a 10% success rate. If you are one of those that I have snubbed in this way over the years, please don't take it personally. I am an equal opportunity snubber!

August Rush

Just saw a beautiful movie..."August Rush." Unrealistic...but who cares? Great music and so heart-warming.

Name dropping...

My very good friend, Mike, and his wife are two of the producers of the new hit show "Rock of Ages" that just opened on Broadway recently. Ya...they just had dinner last night before the show with Tommy Shaw and Kevin Cronin. Critics are raving about it. Some are making Tony award predictions. That's right...MY friend.

Addendum 5/18: the show has now received 5 Tony nominations!

I love Spring, I love a full moon and Easter is my favorite holiday. Last week included all three. But still the best part of the week was time with my extended family. It had been too long...almost as long as the wait for Spring to come back. We need to not let that happen!

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."

~ Socrates

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

- Sarah Williams

Quote of the Day

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Samuel Smiles

I very much need to take this advice right now!

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

Winter Jam

Toby Mac was fabulous at the Winter Jam concert on Thursday!

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

~Vincent Van Gogh