More apocalypse, less angst
Tomorrow I turn 49. Not a milestone birthday, but a messenger of sorts. A foreshadowing. As far as it goes, I’ve done well in the last year. My fitness has been on track, I started a new job in the fall, my family is… Continue Reading “Post #3276: Another year forward….”
Halfway through 2021, I stopped meditating altogether. After cultivating a fairly steady practice since 2014, this came as a bit of a surprise to me. I have occasionally stopped for a couple of weeks, and “daily” has sometimes meant 4 times per week, but… Continue Reading “Post #3275: Returning to old ways”
In 2021 I made no new year goals, and I barely chose a word to guide my year (though I played with Renewal as an idea, I can’t say I really committed to it). Feeling disillusioned by my inability to plan around the pandemic… Continue Reading “Post #3274: 22 Goals for 2022 and my Word of the Year”
I haven’t done a catch-up post for awhile, and here we are at the end of the 2021 (almost!) Enough said that between viral mutation and climate change catastrophes it’s been a weird year, though we’ve done pretty well getting through it at Birdsong… Continue Reading “Post #3273: Heading into holidays”
My parents still live on the property I grew up on, a five acre parcel in Saanich, with two houses and many outbuildings on it. They bought it in 1971, from a man who had just purchased close to sixty acres of land that… Continue Reading “Post #3272: To know this forest”