being not doing

After a completely gray and rainy Sunday, we took advantage of the beautiful clear weather to walk around Lake Artemesia. I can’t remember the last time I was up there; they’ve completely repaved and widened the path around the lake, and have removed at least one tree the roots of which were growing up [...]

So far, I have only a couple of cooking goals for the year. One, I want to learn to cook dried beans in my slow cooker. Two, I want to learn to make pizzas. Neither of these will seem like major challenges to most of you, I’m sure, but they are things [...]

I had great plans to take advantage of Netflix’s online movie service to create a theme night for New Year’s Eve, when we watch movies in order to keep our minds off of how sleepy we’re getting as we wait for midnight to arrive. This year, the theme was going to be ‘World War [...]

This year we celebrated the new year with the Still Water folks at a New Year’s Day brunch. The highlight of the event is the visit from the mindfulness oracle (or maybe The Mindfulness Oracle), who delivers what you need in the new year via chapters from the Tao Te Ching.
Apparently, what I need [...]