Category Archives: Introspection

on not having the answers

June 21, 2010 – 6:14 pm

Last Friday when I went to visit Mom, I started crying. I haven’t been able to stop since. Oh, it comes and goes. I’ve hardly slept because every time I close my eyes to try and sleep, I start crying again. It’s nothing new that’s happened. It’s frustration and anger and grief at the decline [...]

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why can’t it just go away?

May 15, 2010 – 4:06 pm

I saw the shrink the other day when I was in Springfield to see the vascular guy who says, by the way, that the stent in my popliteal artery is working just fine, thank you very much. That’s good news, he doesn’t want to do any expensive tests and he’s going to recommend that Dr [...]

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lost an oar

April 9, 2010 – 6:58 pm

It’s funny, kind of, as I started thinking about writing this the first thing that came to mind was how I don’t like writing about the dark stuff and how that’s not what I wanted the still-sort-of-new blog to be about. I got so tired before I tanked the database with all the crap about [...]

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ah that mindful stuff again

March 24, 2010 – 7:29 pm

A timely guest post came up today at Zen Habits, The Art of Mindful Eating. It’s written by a food blogger that I mean to follow, her approach to cooking looks interesting, Jules Clancy of Stone Soup. I may have to bug one of my Aussie friends to buy and send me a copy of [...]

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the dark

February 4, 2010 – 1:57 am

I don’t write much about the dark times these days. It isn’t because they’ve gone away, it’s more that writing about it feels old and tired and far too self-pitying. I know I’ve said before at some point that the strangest thing for me is that down here in the rabbit hole, I don’t really [...]

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what comes next, again

November 17, 2009 – 5:31 pm

Over the course of the summer, my focus (at least here at the blog) has mostly been on dealing with the stress of the Mom situation and getting back on track with the diet situation. Those are important things. But it means that I have at least not written about much of the personal development [...]

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any excuse will do

November 1, 2009 – 6:13 pm

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” –Aristotle It’s been another up and down week. Except for yesterday, my eating is under good control during the day. Once again, at night, I end up eating things I hadn’t planned and mostly [...]

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saying it out loud

October 18, 2009 – 3:00 pm

Sometimes writing something down triggers insight. Even when writing something that feels very whiny like my post yesterday about living with pain. I do not consciously feel sorry for myself, most of the time at least. Sure, I get down and have the ‘this is so unfair!’ thing going on once in a while, but [...]

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thoughts from down in the rabbit hole

September 13, 2009 – 10:46 am

I’m alone a lot of the time these days, or at least that’s how it feels. I’m not sure it’s really any different than it ever has been. Well, it’s some different. With Mom gone, I am alone in my half of the house most of the time. Maybe I notice the difference because I’m [...]

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a thumbtack on the map of life

July 31, 2009 – 10:42 pm

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu It’s almost trite to talk about the journey being more important than the destination. It’s certainly something I’ve written about before, in fact, probably more times than is strictly speaking reasonable. Many (unnamed and unreferenced) people have spoken or [...]

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