We can’t be happy all the time, the human experience contains any and all possible emotions. You can’t live a full life while trying to avoid pain, or attain perfection.
A FULL LIFE (PERFECTIONISM IS ROUGH)
Tag: life
Boating, Eating and ARTING: Visiting MONA Museum
Last weekend we took the catamaran ferry to Tasmania's Mona Museum (Museum of Old and New Art), and had lunch at Faro (their website explains the name thusly: "Our new bar and restaurant is named for ‘faro’, the Spanish word for ‘lighthouse’, which is the English word for ‘pharos’, which is the Greek name of [...]
Work, Life, Responsibility, ANXIETY
Well that was a long blogging hiatus! I'll be honest with you, I hadn't planned to be away for so long. Life was hectic, continued to be hectic, then got even more hectic and giving equal focus to every aspect of your life and work is impossible. Say it with me now, impossible. This is [...]
The Reading Year in Review
2017 has been a lot of things. On a global and personal scale: overwhelming, challenging, harrowing. There have also been truly good things. We measure out one year on the calendar and give meaning to the passage of time. It's always swings and roundabouts. I'd like to talk about one of the things I enjoyed [...]
NaNoWriMo is over, what next?
Yesterday was the first time in thirty days that I didn't write, and it felt weird.
Day 27 of NaNoWriMo (Ideas! Editing! Bubbles!)
It happens to me every Nano; I am overflowing with ideas that I wouldn't have any other month, which are currently of no use.
NaNoWriMo Day 23 (Stress! Exhaustion! Hope!)
There's only one more week left. Time has both flown and dragged, NaNoWriMo (or any challenging period of time) has a way of doing that. I've got my eye on the finishing line, and I believe I'm going to make it. The thing is, to finish this, there are a lot of other things that [...]
