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Category: Musing
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The Certain Reality of Uncertainty
Dealing with transitions in life and waiting for anything at all.
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Time and Forgiveness
Contemplating the nature of time. As a science fiction and fantasy reader, I see time and time again the concept of time travel introduced, explored, and yearned after. But as an adult human being standing in the present, knowing that the next step, the next keystroke, the next heartbeat, all those lie in the future.…
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Winter Falls Softly
Sitting here watching the snow fall outside, contemplating the upsides of having a day off, and nowhere pressing to go. Sure, we had plans. But if it keeps doing this we’re calling them off and staying in with tea and boardgames. And maybe make some cookies. There are recipes calling my name in the pantry.…
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Living Inside Your Head
Yesterday I was tired, out of sorts, and frustrated with being unable to think clearly. Today, as I woke up and slowly the brain came back online fully, I realized that part of my problem yesterday was that I wasn’t able to live inside my head. Given that a hot shower and hot tea had…
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Fresh and Shiny
It’s a whole new year. Well, really it’s still another day, following a day, preceding a day. Our bodies follow a circadian rhythm that doesn’t care about years, only the light-dark cycle. However, traditionally this is the end of one period of timekeeping and the beginning of another, and as such we imbue the transition…
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The Value of Easy
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to live life on the easy setting. I tend to find myself deliberately doing things the hard way, and challenging myself with the life-choices I’ve made. Take college, for instance. I chose to go back to it, after a 20 year hiatus, to obtain a degree that…
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Winter is Upon Us
We sat out on the porch this morning. First day of winter, and there we are sitting in the cool darkness with coffee and oatmeal. For the moment it’s warm enough, and drizzling, but the forecast is for it to turn to snow by tomorrow. Perhaps we will have a White Christmas. I find that…
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Glurge and Human Emotion
I’m not sure of the true origin of the word glurge. I’m not even sure it’s a real word. I know that I first heard it used to describe the masses of emails that came with the early advent of the internet. Perhaps before the ‘net, it existed – I’m sure some did, since I…
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Depth of Field Living
Mondays seem to be defaulting to my day of talking about nothing on the blog. Mondays are challenging, as I get back into the routine of the week, from the unregimented weekend, especially this last weekend where I did very little. I was lying around trying to let my body fight off the virus that…
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Pumpkin Spice All the Things
I was thinking this morning as I got tonight’s meal prepped and in the crockpot that Fall is finally here. We had a long summer, as it has been very warm right up until this week, and we still haven’t had a killing frost – which reminds me that I need to pick the green…
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Mental Fatigue
I’m back to this again: I only have so much energy. There’s a possibility I could garner a bit more energy, but before I can get there, I have to work through having less energy, because frankly I think I’m carrying more weight than is optimal for my body and I need to shed some…
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Bringing Life
I’ve been working on writing. It’s slow, because right now I’m re-reading and editing, which adds words to the overall total (The East Witch weighs in at 27K out of a planned 100K for perspective) but not a lot. What it does is breathes life into the story for me again. My problem right now…