Thoughts + Concerns
Fresh Air
Excuses aside, I was struck with this poem tonight, and a thought that brought arresting clarity to the past couple of months. Months full of excitement and anticipation, planning, worry, doubt, and impatient pacing. I have been here before, many times. I have come out the other side wiser, stronger, more compassionate. But this time [...]
An Architect’s Dilemma
“…I get a little restless and want to either travel or build”.
[Photo compliments of regin schwaen.]
These twelve words manage to encapsulate the ultimate dichotomy that I wrestle with often. I actually laughed when I found it, on Tacklebox’s blog. I laughed at the simple truth that it implied, I laughed at how long something so [...]
United, indeed.
I came across this yesterday via Ellie at Mint, and was dumbstruck at how brilliantly simple, yet incredibly profound it is. (Has it made enough internet rounds that I’m being a touch redundant? I can’t tell…) As a Canadian, I’ll admit to having a bit of a love-hate relationship with the US - mostly love [...]
This, That and the Other
[The life I'm willingly fleeing back to?]
Such high little aspirations I had for you O Blog of Mine, but alas, I fail you. Yet again. No worries, I’ll continue on regardless, because really, this whole spread is much like talking to oneself. Which I do a lot of actually, as it could probably be considered [...]
Question: Connect Four
I was head down and contorted into an unflattering position in the bathtub, cloth and scrub brush in hand, when the chemicals kicked in and I had a momentary flash of brilliance. Although perhaps it was more like a question followed by more questions, dots, connections, and then a pip squeak of an “ah hah!”
Although, [...]
