Tag: Transformation

In a previous post I wrote (or whined) as follows… “Should there be some culturally recognized rite of passage in which a person who turns -0 is allowed to take three months to disappear and figure life out before returning to run the home stretch?” I was entertaining the idea that I might be able… Continue reading Mind-space and sabbaticals

As I’ve been trying to change things lately and develop better habits, it’s dawned on me just how much of human life and experience is internal experience. I mean, it’s the life of the heart-and-mind that looms so large when it comes to who we are and how we live. Admittedly, I suppose I can… Continue reading Body and mind-space

I mentioned in a previous post (or perhaps I should say, I sheepishly admitted) that I’ve found helpful the practice of repeating to myself in certain moments the three-word expression, “People are small.” It’s a way of putting people (and places and things, as applicable) in proper perspective, so that I don’t succumb to an… Continue reading “People are small” (cont.)

I’ve had some things to say so far about changes I’ve been trying to make lately. Putting it all together (the need for radical reorientation, the sense that I’ve got to shake things up and experiment with alternatives) has led to a wide variety of new habits and patterns. And some of them, frankly, just… Continue reading Strategies for shaking things up

Here’s another one of those addenda I might have tacked on to the previous post, but I decided to click “New Post” instead… This whole business of mixing things up and trying new possibilities, twice lately I’ve read or watched something that extolled the benefits of that approach. The first was the book by Ed… Continue reading Epiphany #2 (cont.)

It was a few weeks after Grocery Store Parking Lot Realization Day (see previous post) when I had another one of those “Aha!” moments… I’d gotten home from one of our daily drive-children-somewhere-and-drop-them-off trips. I’m not sure what it was exactly that got my attention that morning, and got me so melancholy. Maybe it was… Continue reading Epiphany #2: This just isn’t working

So what launched me on this whole recent period of self-examination and personal transformation? Whence these reflections, and revolutions, and new routines? It all hit home one day in the grocery store parking lot… This was a few months ago. Several weeks before I had celebrated one of those momentous birthdays. One of those birthdays… Continue reading Epiphany #1: Breaking up is hard to do