| New Year |
[01 Jan 2017|08:38pm] |
After being either on vacation or at home for most of the past two weeks, it felt productive to go in to the office today. I regularly work Sundays, and since this year the New Year's Day holiday falls on Monday, I have another day off tomorrow.
One of my work friends had a baby three months after me, so she is returning from maternity leave later this week. I was messaging her today about it, and she told me, "I'm really going to need someone to give me a good hug." I know exactly what she means--just three months ago, I was crying every morning for the first few days of leaving my baby to go to work.
My milk production has improved again since the NYC trip. I've been drinking fenugreek tea, which is pretty terrible, but that and a lot of nursing has helped. Early this morning, Sebastian also took some oatmeal, and this afternoon ate some puréed beets before I came home.
I have a flight booked to visit my parents (with the baby) for a few days at the beginning of February. I'm feeling wary about flying Frontier Airlines again, but with the voucher they gave me for the flight delays last week, the airfare is less than $25. So, fingers crossed!
I was listening today to one of my favorite podcasts, On Being. Krista interviewed an audio ecologist, Gordon Hempton, who was so clear in everything he said that I immediately ordered a used copy of his book from Amazon: One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Quest to Preserve Quiet.
I used to think that I should set resolutions to spend more time alone in nature. Now that it isn't as easy to do that, I remember that I do need to be more present, wherever I am.
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[02 Dec 2011|02:45pm] |
I tried to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
(Maxine Hong Kingston)
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[28 Oct 2011|09:46am] |
The book cannot be what the writer is not.
(C.S. Lewis)
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[14 Sep 2011|04:00pm] |
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.
(Madeleine L'Engle)
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| Shambhala warrior |
[02 May 2011|01:05pm] |
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If victory is the notion of no enemy, then the whole world is a friend. That seems to be the warrior’s philosophy. The true warrior is not like somebody carrying a sword and looking behind his own shadow, in case somebody is lurking there. That is the setting-sun warrior’s point of view, which is an expression of cowardice. The true warrior always has a weapon, in any case … The definition of warriorship is fearlessness and gentleness. Those are your weapons. The genuine warrior becomes truly gentle because there is no enemy at all.
(Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche)
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