Comments on: Stop! Sucking! Day 7: Just…stop it

By: communicatrix

communicatrix — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:29:00 +0000

Well, one can always make exceptions for salubrious activities :-)

Congrats on the Moleskine. I go back and forth on loving them. Meaning, I adore them, but they’re so beautiful (and dear) that I get a little freaked about just doodling in them. Did they cost less in Hemingway’s day? I mean, certainly they did, but adjusted for inflation?

I did read–and buy–Mary Oliver, on your reco. You recommender of all things good, you.

By: Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:12:28 +0000

I Want to be reading your blog more than time allows–it’s the sort of soul-feeding activity I now seek out as if my life depended on it. Which my soul kinda does as an antidote for the daily innundation of speed, junk, fog (no, not drugs…noxious elements of this morning’s grocery shopping trip). And now, with my very first moleskine notebook (yippee for that 30% off coupon at Dick Blick) and my trusty 6B pencil and kneaded eraser, out to the yard I go to have some sketching fun. Definitely Want to do that, too. Your blog, for me, champions these ways of spending my time. Have you ever read Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day”? Like you, another visionary and champion among us whose writings I treasure.

By: communicatrix

communicatrix — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:08:08 +0000

Word, dude.

It took a train running over me followed by a house being dropped onto me for me to wake up to that. And I STILL forget.

Of course, what your dad probably also meant was “_My_ life is too short to have to put up with the two of _you_ fighting all the time.”

Just sayin’… :-)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:21:29 +0000

When my brother and I were kids (or a lot younger, he has nine years on me) and we would fight, my dad would always tell us “Life is too short to be fighting all the time …”.

“Life is too short …” keeps coming back to me lately. Life is too short to keep spending it doing things you don’t Want to be doing … or responding to things in a way that makes them worse than they have to be.

All easier said than applied, of course … ;-) ….

By: communicatrix

communicatrix — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:45:29 +0000

I wonder if I just randomly named numbers, how many of them would be pop songs?

See, I usually think up weird things like that when I’m not well-rested; today is just the opposite.

By: Dave G

Dave G — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:29:08 +0000

Good reminder. It’s easy to get caught up in the overall forward momentum of life sometimes. I envision a giant stop sign when I do.

On a side note, your mention of 8:02 reminded me of the song “8:02 PM” by For Squirrels. I hadn’t listened to it in years, so thank you :-)

By: communicatrix

communicatrix — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:55:31 +0000

GirlPie - Alas, both The BF and I have turned into the kind of person who is perpetually running 15 - 145 minutes late with each other, so we kind of expect it. (Note: when there’s an engagement we’re trying to make that requires us to be there at a particular time, we’re much better at it.)

Last night, I got there w/in 30 minutes of when I said I would. A vast improvement, and a fine start.

Sizzle - Hard to argue with, huh? :-)

Jeremy - D’you know, I almost wrote “including this here post”? I’ve a feeling you’ve less a problem with obsessiveness and self-discipline than some of us. Erm.

Dyana - Dang, girl. You *are* an early riser.

By: Dyana

Dyana — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:54:48 +0000

great one–I just STOPPED and am going for a capital “W” Walk. Thank you. Dyana

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:05:56 +0000

Wait a minute. this is too meta for me.

What I was doing, at the exact moment you asked me to ask, was reading you. And for sure that was what I Wanted to be doing. In fact, I didn’t want to stop at all.

So, I’m going to give myself a few minutes to start doing something else, and then see how I get on with stopping That.

OK?

By: sizzle

sizzle — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:53:13 +0000

For serious. I agree.