I wonder if we stereotype children for having a hyper attention span that annoys to the high heavens. Since I have come down with a fever achey body runny nose the last few days, I tried for some extra sleep this morning while a friend watched Darien at home here. Nothing doing because he tends [...]
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The Art of Focusing
January 17, 2012
Failure Club
January 16, 2012
How else to succeed besides failure? This last week helped me witness apparent failure and I am damn happy for that. For the sake of emotional safety, I have often created false connections to people–or no connection at all. Yet this changes daily as my capacity to live feeling open and vulnerable is now simply [...]
A Day in the Life
January 3, 2012
Too tempted by a new pair of crystal clear Sony headphones, I cued up a CBS television show that I admire, A Gifted Man. The storyline gently conflicts an ambitious Manhattan brain surgeon with his previous life while married to a doctor working at a low income clinic in rural Alaska. One day his ex-wife [...]
New Year’s Day 2012
January 2, 2012
Truly strange how life cajoles us all to change. What we will do to not change. The resistance! This last year has simply been a shift in perspective creating incremental emotional change over the last twelve months. I thought I had changed, but when a woman I know on the periphery returned to live in [...]
He Did It
November 28, 2011
One squeaky toy that lingers in the basket is a frog that shrills, “I did it.” The first time Darien heard this pitch, he woke up the morning after parroting exactly those words. This happened when he was around 11 months and now he is 13 months old. Truth be told is that he did [...]
Busted Open Heart
November 1, 2011
A week ago my heart reached that nexus of need to break wide open. Mind you, this meant I simply made a few honest phone calls then sat down to a stiff cup of camomile and mint tea–yes, shockingly my local panaderia sells a mixed tea. My life has reached a plateau of ordinary that [...]
Feeling Abundant in Less
December 27, 2010
Midnight in the Garrett house and I am enjoying some adult time. What a fine luxury to have stepped out of a hot shower and start sitting down to a cup of tea. Darien has been sound asleep since 9:30 p.m., so I take the free hours to relax into the remainder of the day. [...]
Sleeping Beauty
December 16, 2010
Last post was on a Friday night around midnight, a few short hours before my ex-roomie needed a ride to the airport at 6:30 a.m. Wow. Sure, I hauled myself out of bed at 5 a.m. but the weight on my bones was heavy. Still, the details began to appear. Her six month old needed [...]
