So you want to accomplish something, but you don’t have time? Of course you have. You’re awake 16 hours a day; surely you have a few minutes to spend on That Thing You Want To Do. Even one little task is more than nothing: Put one thing on eBay. Look up how to start aContinue reading “Getting ’er done”
Category Archives: Encourage
Random scribbling before dawn, Part II
Ten minutes. That’s all it took — a short burst of effort, a little bit of time — to write the blog post I put up Wednesday. That’s how 272-day writing streaks happen. “Can you meet this goal for this moment in time?” “Sure, I guess I can.” “Good. How about now? Can you doContinue reading “Random scribbling before dawn, Part II”
Random scribbling before dawn, Part I
I have nothing this morning, except a streak of 271 days, a habit that has become an expectation, and even if I am the only one in the world who expects it (notice I avoided the word “obligation”), it has become important, and that is progress. All of my life I have worked to meetContinue reading “Random scribbling before dawn, Part I”
What’s the point
We spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is our purpose in life. What’s the meaning of “all this”? You work your way through something day by day and sometimes try to conjure what all the somethings mean: To find a purpose, to find a story, to find a point behind itContinue reading “What’s the point”
Choices we make today
A scream of consciousness cuts through the quiet: This is today, isn’t it? The debris from yesterday continues to haunt, and the promises of tomorrow may or may not ring true, but today is here, right on time, to be shaped and formed now, to our pleasure and delight or to our weary horror —Continue reading “Choices we make today”
To serve entropy or to build
Every morning there is a choice to be made between light and dark, life and death, sickness and health. Words heal and words destroy. This day, this minute, shall I heal or shall I destroy? The power is in this remarkable organ between my ears. The body cries inertia. The false death of sleep isContinue reading “To serve entropy or to build”
It’s going to be all right
(originally posted Feb. 6, 2017) It’s going to be all right. Everyone seems to be so agitated. Every day in the news and social media and everywhere we turn, someone is barking out another reason to be alarmed or horrified or, at least, offended. We live in ridiculous times. But it’s going to be allContinue reading “It’s going to be all right”
I would rather
“I would rather …” was that an e.e. cummings poem? I remember the emotion of reading it for the first time — “I would rather … than teach a thousand stars how not to shine.” Was that it? It took my breath away. I love when words do that — move in your heart andContinue reading “I would rather”
Turn the page
Yes, that’s right. Turn the page. You filled up the last page and life goes on, so turn the page and keep writing the journal of your life. There is always another blank page waiting, but first you must turn to it. Oh, you can just sit there staring at the old page, the filledContinue reading “Turn the page”
Your mission, should you decide to accept
Give yourself permission. Sing a song. Play a musical instrument. Write a poem. Paint a painting. Create a pot. Draw what you see, either in front of your nose or in your head. Move your hands. Move your body. Make something that didn’t exist until your hands started playing. Create. Make. Build. You are human.Continue reading “Your mission, should you decide to accept”
