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Patience as instruction

Patience is one of those funny things that is always inversely affected by your own sense of urgency. The more urgent your task, the less patience you can generally muster. But it’s also one of those things that can be cultivated. It’s hard, which is why people say that patience is a virtue. If it’s…

October 23, 2012
Lunching with twins

I go visit the Ringlets at lunch. Today, a story about Henry. He is kind of obsessed about getting into stuff. Here’s a recent photo of him in the toy box at my parents. So today at lunch, he had found another box to get into. And, quite typically, Eleanor caught sight, and decided to…

October 22, 2012
Trust

Early one morning last week, I was lying on my side when something woke me a little. I opened an eye and saw Eleanor; she was sleeping between us, and just stirring. I went back to sleep. Sometime later, I felt something lightly thud on my shoulder and chest. A little giggle. Then it went…

October 22, 2012
Time and society

Last night at nearly the same time, my wonderful husband who is wonderful and I expressed opposite opinions. Him: This week is flying by! Me: This week is going so slowly! Then we stood there for a second staring at the other one, probably both of us (at least one of us) wondering how the…

October 10, 2012
Passion part three

Just today I came across this article in Fast Company by Cal Newport, excerpted from his book: http://www.fastcompany.com/3001441/do-steve-jobs-did-dont-follow-your-passion. The comments are especially interesting. Part of the argument is that people think Steve Jobs told students to find and follow their passion, while his own history was more complex than that. He developed passion in his…

October 3, 2012
Passion part 2

My sister and I were talking about the first Passion post (here) and she said some things that I thought were really interesting. First, you should know that she is a Major in the Army, she’s done two tours in war zones, and she is kind of* kick ass. Anyway, she’s currently doing some continuing…

October 2, 2012
Passion

My husband made a CD for a trip we were taking recently, and I stole it and put it in my car afterwards. This is the way of my people. Anyway, I was listening to these songs, and I started to think about how, for me, musicians I like reach a sort of peak, and…

September 28, 2012
Busyness

I’ve been a poor poster lately, for a variety of reasons. The central theme, however, is busyness. Which should really be spelled business, which leads me to start thinking about the real meaning of what it is that happens all around the world everyday. Now seems like a good time to mention that my views…

September 21, 2012
Story Time

Eleanor has started to read books. She’s fascinated by them. It’s interesting because of the twins, she’s the maniac. She wants to go at 100%, 100% of the time. So when she sits down and focuses on something, it’s kind of a relief. Anyway, she sits down with some board books (she really can’t do…

September 6, 2012
Lyrics I don’t know (and then some!)

We’re all guilty of this. Here are some of my infractions (along with ones I know about and wish I were guilty of). Song: Rock the Casbah (Clash) Lyric as I sing it: Sharif don’t like it, Rocking the Casbah Actual: Sharia don’t like it, Rocking the Casbah I admit, this makes more sense. I…

August 24, 2012