by KimBoo York | Dec 26, 2016 | Ponderings
Grief: keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret. For most of the people I know, whether they celebrate Christmas or not, the day after Christmas is always a somber occasion. It could be as simple as post-holiday drop, or...
by KimBoo York | Dec 25, 2016 | Ponderings
Creation: Something new begins to emerge The new thing here is my my new secular “New Year Advent”, an idea I mentioned as a joke in a previous post. The more I thought about it, the more I liked doing something ritualistic to mark the end of the past year...
by KimBoo York | Dec 24, 2016 | Ponderings
My “holiday tradition” has become using the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day as a time of personal reflection. I rarely go anywhere or do anything with other people in this time frame. Since I don’t celebrate any religious holidays and...
by KimBoo York | Dec 20, 2016 | Ponderings
In casting about for ideas for this blog post, because as always I am utterly inept at planning ahead, my friend TimH suggested “purgatory friends.” Only that’s not what he actually suggested. He said: “write about the odd ‘purgatory...
by KimBoo York | Dec 10, 2016 | Ponderings
I’ve always been haunted by the question, “what do you?” It is just nonsensical to me because what we do in our lives is…everything? But that’s not the intention with the asking. What is meant: what JOB do you have? What is it that earns...
by KimBoo York | Dec 5, 2016 | Ponderings
2016, like 2009, has been for me personally “the year of therapy.” Not that therapy is always something so neatly boxed up with start and end dates — the therapy of 2009 started in mid 2008 and ended in late 2010, for instance. Even then I knew it...
