autumn twilight
… where the water meets the sea, between the worlds, within the void …autumn twilight
… where the water meets the sea, between the worlds, within the void …Biography, filing, and sick of work.
I got a few things done today. First of which is the first draft of my mentor bio for the Brotherhood of the Phoenix site. I find it really difficult to write about myself. The things that I think you should know about me are generally not the things that go in biographies like this. So I struggled a lot and in the end came up with 230 words that I think come to a well-manicured balance between the professional and the sincere. I will revisit it tomorrow before sending it off to get some feedback on it. I definitely need to trim it down a little further. Some of the sentences are exceedingly long, and I think I’d like to keep it under 200 words total.
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Dream Re-Entry and plans
On the train to work. The sun is shining through the window. I have the good single seat, but it of course faces the east. It seems like it’s just late enough in the morning that the sun isn’t in my eyes sitting here. If I were any shorter I’d be in trouble.
I was dreaming a lot this morning, but I lost most of it on account of jumping out of bed when I realized what time it was. This is frustrating, but overall I’m kind of excited about it. I’m not excited about losing my memory of the dream, but I am excited because this morning I was doing something I haven’t done since I was a child.
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Flat Tires and Detours: Life is a road trip.
Nearly one in the morning. It seems a great deal of my blog posts start that way. Especially lately. George and I spent the last several hours talking about various things. Our personal goals and spiritual plans for the coming months. There seems to be a theme of planning going on in a lot of areas lately. Last night the education committee planned our public offerings for the year. Earlier this week the membership discussed energetic and spiritual themes for the year. I’ve been working on planning my studies for the coming months.
This of course makes sense given the season. Spring is coming a bit late, but we seem to be making the best of it by planning our planting and growing season more carefully than we have in the past. Part of it may be because we sense that the season for growing, and the opportunity we will have to harvest may be shorter this year than it has been in the recent years. We may have to coax as much as we can from the land to hold us through the winter.
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life sucks, but you aren’t alone
Saturday night. It was a nice relaxing day. Before I write anything else I want to give you an image. George and I were talking about karate, and he once again reiterated his belief that my senseis are very foolish to even consider teaching me martial arts. I confess that this is probably the case. I’m probably dangerous enough without a black belt. Regardless, I wound up doing the repetetive roundhouse thing where you keep your leg up and kick repeatedly and rotate a bit each time. I’m not very fast, but I have the balance for this. It being late at night, I said to George, “It would be just like that, only faster. Like a machine gun. Of feet.”
I’m listening to Justincase, which is a terrible band from the early 2000′s, contemporaries of Michelle Branch. they actually toured with her I think. The lead singer boy is of course kind of cute. He makes me think of my friend Nick a little bit. In the looks department. I’d had enough of the mellow new-agey music I’ve been listening to for the past few nights. This isn’t hard at all, and is mellow in its own way. It’s a bit emo-tastic, which I’m okay with. The singer has a slurring semi-whiny voice, and takes some serious liberties with pronounciation. But it is generally pleasant to me.
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New theme, waiting, time
It’s been a good good friday. I’m sitting in bed with that cat curled up next to me and listening to Loreena McKennitt again. I finished up the blog redesign mid-day today and turned it on. I’m really pleased with how it turned out. I also rewrote the text of the ‘about theo’ page and decided to ditch a live twitter feed.
I’m a little pensive. I’ve got this feeling like I’m waiting for something really big. I can feel it coming, but I can’t hurry it along, so I just wait for it. It’s not a terrible waiting, at least not yet. Just a bit of knowledge that I’m being patient.
I remember when over a year ago John told me to ‘Wait for it.’ And every few days when I’d see or talk to him he’d say ‘are you waiting?’ When eventually he became a brother he was like ‘it’s here!’ This feels a little like that. Like I should keep my eyes open for something that’s going to show up. It feels a little like a promise.
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