{185} New Year Advent Day 3 (December 27th)

Courage: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty I was beating myself up this morning trying to figure out what a good theme would be to follow grief, but nothing came to me. After doing some creative work, I thought...

{184} New Year Advent Day 2 (December 26th)

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...

{183} New Year Advent Day 1 (December 25th)

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...

{182} The Last Week of the Year

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...

{178} Purgatory friends

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...

{173} What do you do?

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...