We aren’t meant to live the way most of us do. I don’t mean in the days of coronavirus shutdowns. I mean in general. For most of us, our lifestyles conflict with our nature. We aren’t meant to perform sedentary work, only to return home and sit all night. We aren’t meant to consume hours of passive entertainment. We aren’t meant to replace water and … Continue reading Take care of your body. You can thank me later.
I like Twitter. I also find it problematic. That is, I find my behaviour tends to the problematic when I’m on Twitter. I use different social media platforms for different things. Facebook is keeping up with friends and family and funny memes. WordPress is reading and writing. Pinterest is for killing time adding projects I’ll never do to boards I rarely look at. Instagram is … Continue reading It’s hard not to Jekyll and Hyde on Twitter.
I like to revisit favourite movie scenes. I’ve seen “Manhattan is flooding” from The Day After Tomorrow so many times I can recite the dialogue verbatim. Seeing Aliens break through the barricades on LV-426 is always a pick me up. I drop in on favoured scenes from books, too. As with movies, there are specific books I prefer to revisit. Much depends on my mood. … Continue reading It’s the quirks that make things interesting.
I have a few thoughts about managing depression. I have zero credentials save for life experience. My current bout of depression is not my first. I’ve been in the trenches before. My mood is sitting at “I feel like dogshit and kind of wish I was dead but feelings aren’t in my control so let’s focus on the things that are” and the second half … Continue reading Half-assed is okay.
From Famine to Feast 