I sometimes feel adrift. I’m 48, likely more than halfway through my life, and this drifting has become clearer to me as I look forward a decade or so and think about what life might look like in retirement. It used to be that our kids gave our lives structure. Now that one has moved … Continue reading A life of purpose
I often wonder what my hopes and dreams are. Like, my true hopes and dreams, the ones I will actually do something about. I’ve journaled and blogged about this before. I think about it frequently. What do I want out of life? Yesterday, I landed on something that felt true. I thought, what do I … Continue reading I think my dreams might be boring
Do you know what you want most, deep down in your truest self? Something you’ve desired all of your life, that’s part of who you are as a person? I don’t. When I see encouragement to Follow your dreams!, Align your actions with your values!, or to Honor your true desire! rather than staying safe … Continue reading What is your deepest desire?
You know how sometimes you’re taking a hot shower, and the shower curtain billows into your tiny pocket of shower space and pushes you against the wall and sticks to your legs, and no matter how much you push it back and try to make the little magnets at the bottom stick to the tub … Continue reading Weather in the shower
I think a lot. My mind is always going. Words and thoughts run and run and run through my head. When I’m in the shower, ideas come to me. When I run, I turn problems over in my brain. Tuesday, when I went for a swim, I had a couple of problems I planned to … Continue reading Blissfully blank
A few weeks ago, I drafted a blog post for work. I wasn’t sure about the tone or the message, and since I wasn’t confident about posting it, I decided to put it aside for a bit while I took a few minutes to grab a shower: the one thing in my day that I … Continue reading Standing in the shower, thinking
Butterfly Mind 