I've been working and knitting and enjoying weekends with the Physicist.
A short list of the past few weeks.
I've...
- seen the Weston Exhibit at the Akron Art Museum.
- spent the afternoon in Oberlin and taken in the collection at the Allen Art Museum.
- seen E.O. Wilson speak at Severence Hall on Darwin
- seen Brian Greene speak at Finney Chapel on String Theory
- read "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith
- read "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
- started "A walk in the woods" by Bill Bryson
- started "Epitaph for a peach" by David Masumoto
- watched countless TED talks
- drank copious amounts of tea
- finished watching the complete "Brideshead Revisited"
- weened myself off sleeping with a white noise machine (sometimes...)
- learned to ask for the little things that make life better
- learned that asking sometimes even results in receiving
- ate hybridized chestnuts
- strengthened my vegetarian cooking skills
- learned what a 2-stroke engine is AND am preparing to help fix one (!)
Happy just isn't fodder for blogs - but I'll try to keep up appearances...
3 comments:
On the contrary, I think happy is EXCELLENT fodder for blogs. Your list of what you have been up to is inspiring. (And a little humbling, I feel like a slug in comparison!)
Do you think you're only interesting when you are unhappy or conflicted? I think that is an unfortunate common belief. (Wait a minute, isn't there a TED lecture on this topic? Heh!) Or is writing only interesting to you when you are working through something weighty?
I wish I were keeping up with my blog and memorializing all the happy I have in my life. :)
No, but I think this blog was born of a storm and now that it's subsided, so it changes how I interact with it.
I also know that I get all gaggy when I read some of the "look-how-perfect-my-life-is" blogs, and I don't want that either.
I'll figure it out - but thanks for the input, I'll be sure to share more of the happy!
Remember there is a lot of ground between writing about happy and writing a "look how perfect my life is" blog!
I know what you mean, but I can't imagine you making people feel gaggy. :)
Post a Comment