What I’ve been up to:
Booking Mexico for Matt’s birthday and he booked the Oregon Coast for our anniversary, so that is some nice beachy R&R in our future. But first DC for my birthday and then Vancouver for my dad’s birthday.
Trying to cut down on plastic and cans but I’m also trying to cut down on drinking and I have developed a powerful LaCroix habit.
Studying all the (psych) things, painting the entire house. And now also the garden is coming up so weeding in between things too.
What was beautiful:
What I’m reading and listening to:
About the largest cave in the world
Dolphin’s experience psychological trauma after being hunted for research
Highly Sensitive People. No surprise but I think I am one.
Every day mysticism at On Being
Charting a life course with diagrams
How I got my husband to help with the housework – the high cost of emotional labour
Shiba Inu who runs a vegetable stand
Attachment styles in Adulthood
Rethinking the battle against Depression
Related: How to Relax without Alcohol
It’s in your pockets and behind your eyelids, it shares your clothes and has its hands wrapped around your throat. It’s dripping down the walls and yelling from the trees, it whispers and sings and dances and sobs, all day every day and your one and only job is to pay close attention
Hope for everything. Expect nothing.
Be kind to old people, even when they are obnoxious. When you
become old, be kind to young people. Do not throw your cane at
them when they call you Grandpa. They are your grandchildren!
Live with an animal.