Found here, on this fabulous blog that you should all subscribe to. Such a fun concept - messages on post it notes, left in random public places.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Find Your Voice
How could I not share this great find, especially since earlier in the week I wrote this post about my one word for 2011 (heal) and about finding my own voice as a part of that process of healing.
Found here, on this fabulous blog that you should all subscribe to. Such a fun concept - messages on post it notes, left in random public places.
Found here, on this fabulous blog that you should all subscribe to. Such a fun concept - messages on post it notes, left in random public places.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 163
Today's Daily 5:
- Clean drinking water
- Getting my favorite seat on the bus
- A tea biscuit from Tim Horton's, consumed in class
- A sunny day
- Starting to read a new book on prayer, and feeling the deep smile that comes from "hearing" a beloved author's voice again
- A grilled chicken pita from Extreme Pita
- Yoga class - the first 20 minutes are rough, and then my body settles in and I feel SO good afterwards
- cookies
- finishing an audio book today (it's on my reading list if you're curious)
- getting this week and next week's reading for a class I'm taking finished while on the bus to and from school today
Layers
"It gets better in layers."
Two different people in the space of ten minutes said that to me last night.
I sort of smiled bemusedly at them, and rolled my eyes, but inside, I wanted to scream and yell.
We were talking about the various natural health treatments that I've been getting over the last year or so, and they were pointing out that healing and relief comes in layers - that it happens slowly, and kind of intangibly.
(This, by the way, is my biggest beef with natural health stuff. I'm a proponent of it because it has worked for me. I haven't needed antibiotics in years - a good thing for someone who is allergic to all major antibiotics. I'm a proponent of it because it works, but it drives me crazy that I can't tell you why or how it works, and that the success of it is very intangible - it's not quantifiable or measurable.)
I do not do intangible well in a lot of arenas, but I'm getting lots and lots of practice at living with it these days.
Layers of healing it is.
It's going to make for an interesting year with this one word of "heal".
Two different people in the space of ten minutes said that to me last night.
I sort of smiled bemusedly at them, and rolled my eyes, but inside, I wanted to scream and yell.
We were talking about the various natural health treatments that I've been getting over the last year or so, and they were pointing out that healing and relief comes in layers - that it happens slowly, and kind of intangibly.
(This, by the way, is my biggest beef with natural health stuff. I'm a proponent of it because it has worked for me. I haven't needed antibiotics in years - a good thing for someone who is allergic to all major antibiotics. I'm a proponent of it because it works, but it drives me crazy that I can't tell you why or how it works, and that the success of it is very intangible - it's not quantifiable or measurable.)
I do not do intangible well in a lot of arenas, but I'm getting lots and lots of practice at living with it these days.
Layers of healing it is.
It's going to make for an interesting year with this one word of "heal".
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 162
Today's Daily 5:
- Starting the morning slowly
- doing homework in my pajamas in bed
- breakfast in bed
- a good natural health treatment tonight
- comfort food in bed after my treatment - Macdonalds, baby! (and yes, I realize that Macdonalds and a natural health treatment are sort of oxymoronical)
Tuesday Morning
It's almost 9:30 on Tuesday morning, and I am still in bed.
I've graduated to a sitting position, and I've swallowed my morning batch of vitamins, and I'm eating the breakfast I somehow remembered to set on my bedside table last night, but I'm still in bed.
Tuesdays are good for this. My classes for the day don't start until 3:30 this afternoon, so Tuesdays can accommodate my body's preferred sleep schedule, which these days seems to run from around midnight to eight or one in the morning until nine. This is not a practical sleep schedule for a real world life, but it works just nicely for a student.
And, speaking of sleep, for those of you who have followed here for a long time, and know my challenges in that particular area, these days I'm actually getting some. After a year of taking supplements, getting natural health treatments, and well, the elimination of some major stressors, most nights I sleep at least four or five hours before waking, and can usually manage another 2-4 hours after waking. I'm not ready to try sleep without supplementation of melatonin yet, but this thing where I can actually feel rested? I like it. I hope it sticks around.
So, this morning I'm going to sit in bed and write this post, and then I'm going to sit in bed and tackle the last lesson in my medical terminology class - a class which basically involves memorizing a huge variety of long and not so useful words, plus the greek bases, prefixes and suffixes that make up those words. There's a quiz on Friday, so, once I've tackled the last lesson, and made the last set of flashcards, I'll be spending the remainder of the week working to memorize the vast amounts of information that those cards contain.
But, here's what I'm wondering - do we really need words that are this specific? Words like melangeophilous, meaning "dwelling in loam" and emetomania, meaning, "a morbid desire to vomit." Also, if these are really words, why does my spell checker have a heart attack every time I type them? It makes me question my competence in spelling.
I feel productive when I have time to accomplish a number of things from my "to do" list for the day before I ever truly leave bed and my pajamas. There's something lovely about being super productive before ever dressing for the day.
And with that, I'm wrapping up this blog post, and off to tackle that last lesson that really is all Greek to me!
I've graduated to a sitting position, and I've swallowed my morning batch of vitamins, and I'm eating the breakfast I somehow remembered to set on my bedside table last night, but I'm still in bed.
Tuesdays are good for this. My classes for the day don't start until 3:30 this afternoon, so Tuesdays can accommodate my body's preferred sleep schedule, which these days seems to run from around midnight to eight or one in the morning until nine. This is not a practical sleep schedule for a real world life, but it works just nicely for a student.
And, speaking of sleep, for those of you who have followed here for a long time, and know my challenges in that particular area, these days I'm actually getting some. After a year of taking supplements, getting natural health treatments, and well, the elimination of some major stressors, most nights I sleep at least four or five hours before waking, and can usually manage another 2-4 hours after waking. I'm not ready to try sleep without supplementation of melatonin yet, but this thing where I can actually feel rested? I like it. I hope it sticks around.
So, this morning I'm going to sit in bed and write this post, and then I'm going to sit in bed and tackle the last lesson in my medical terminology class - a class which basically involves memorizing a huge variety of long and not so useful words, plus the greek bases, prefixes and suffixes that make up those words. There's a quiz on Friday, so, once I've tackled the last lesson, and made the last set of flashcards, I'll be spending the remainder of the week working to memorize the vast amounts of information that those cards contain.
But, here's what I'm wondering - do we really need words that are this specific? Words like melangeophilous, meaning "dwelling in loam" and emetomania, meaning, "a morbid desire to vomit." Also, if these are really words, why does my spell checker have a heart attack every time I type them? It makes me question my competence in spelling.
I feel productive when I have time to accomplish a number of things from my "to do" list for the day before I ever truly leave bed and my pajamas. There's something lovely about being super productive before ever dressing for the day.
And with that, I'm wrapping up this blog post, and off to tackle that last lesson that really is all Greek to me!
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