I very rarely meet books I don’t like. I can usually find something of value between two covers. Unless the content is deliberately ugly, some piece of nastiness designed to lower the state of discourse and human society, in which case I tend to judge and condemn without cracking the spine. I don’t need to eat worms to know I won’t enjoy the experience. As … Continue reading Rereading is friendship and inspiration.
“Gifted” is mostly practice I find it odd when people use the phrase “gifted,” because what they’re labelling as “talent” is most often the result of hard work. Talent is nice, sure, but without training in the area of interest, it’s also fairly useless. The “talented” label also denies the work people put in. This is not to say that there isn’t a very tiny … Continue reading Instinct is a skill.
Good boundaries. I didn’t grow up with good boundaries. There are reasons for that: My son, on the other hand, has great boundaries. He has great boundaries for the same reason he’s not frightened of spiders – I raised him that way. Teaching him to have good boundaries was a deliberate act. We all want our children to have what we didn’t. By the time … Continue reading We Need Roots, Wings, and Boundaries.
I haven’t had a vacation I’ve not had a real vacation since before 2019. In fact, my last real vacation was my aborted attempt at a solo trip to Mazatlan. It didn’t end particularly well. There was a weekend up to Salmon Arm with my friendly acquaintances in the summer of 2022, although my memories of that one are tainted by my discovery that I … Continue reading Weekday getaways with a side of anxiety – an off-the-cuff joint.
From Famine to Feast 