February 11, 2017 (Saturday)

February 10, 2018

What a squirrel mind I have this morning… There might be brand new chimney caps on my roof, keeping actual squirrels (and birds) out of my house, but my mind is home to seemingly endless invasions of disconnected-and-yet-oh-so-connected (all of a genus) thoughts, which, as the real squirrels did when they reached, through hollow walls, […]

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February 10, 2017 (Friday)

February 9, 2018

Yesterday. Lots of snow, lots and lots. Lots of wind, lots of storm. A battening down of the hatches, enforced quietude, but so much turbulence outside – and inside the mind, too. I finished listening to Tim Ferris’s interview with Debbie Millman yesterday afternoon, early, as the storm outside really picked up, and I was […]

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February 9, 2017 (Thursday)

February 8, 2018

Big snow coming, sky is thick with solids and whiteness. It’s just starting, even though it’s already 9:40am (very late morning for us – late to bed, too). The weather forecast predicted first a 6am start, then a 4am start. But really it’s a 9am start. All of which might add up to a much […]

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February 8, 2017 (Wednesday)

February 7, 2018

We’re supposed to get clobbered by a Nor’easter tomorrow, starting at 6am-ish, which is expected to bring 8-12″ of snow. I’m shocked – even though it’s February, typically our meanest winter month, it’s been so mild, I didn’t see this coming. (Neither did the National Weather Service until yesterday.) Yesterday we had a very messy […]

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February 7, 2017 (Tuesday)

February 6, 2018

Soft gray, all is muted. It feels comfortable. In my “room” (space, more like), not too warm (from scorching sun), not too cold (from thrusting winds). The light: bright in its way, but tamped-down, filtered. Thick, medium-high clouds pulling slowly toward south, south-west, probably part of a much larger vortex I can’t see. They are […]

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February 6, 2017 (Monday)

February 5, 2018

And another day – a Monday, a week, a work-week for some – rolls around. This morning… ah, me. Not sure about how I feel about the weekend –mostly glum, I think. Yes, as per Andy of Headspace, these are mere “thoughts,” but I am trying to be more aware generally of what’s going on […]

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February 5, 2017 (Sunday)

February 4, 2018

Clouds, bless them. Not sure how to start today, my head feels overfull and restless. Start with the sky – things falling out of the sky the way ideas fall out of my head. Yesterday I had some fresh insights into a couple of issues. They were so vivid. I thought I’d remember them for […]

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February 4, 2017 (Saturday)

February 3, 2018

It’s 9am and the sun has been blasting its way into this room for at least an hour. Possibly longer. It’s impossibly hot without the shade pulled down. Am I really in the right space to work, or is this sort of fretting just a way of delaying things? That word, “things”… As if I […]

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February 3, 2017 (Friday)

February 2, 2018

The last few days I’ve been feeling a strange kind of generalized anxiety. I think I should probably go back to adding in an afternoon meditation… The feeling has been with me almost all week. I described it to A. as “a disturbance in the force,” only half-jokingly. It grew out of Trump’s actions – […]

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February 2, 2017 (Thursday)

February 1, 2018

I might get interrupted here pretty quickly, before I manage to write my three pages: at 7:35 this morning, the biggest flatbed truck I’ve ever seen was idling before my house, while a big orange “man-lift” from equipment-4-rent already sat in my driveway. Any moment now I should see K. and his boss from Boston’s […]

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