Working on Stuff

Okay, fine, it is talking to a wall. I had my first dialogue with one. An inner wall. I think our talk went surprisingly well. My wall was about as unyielding and imposing as you’d expect. And still, I think we somehow managed to come out of our chat on the same side. My side. [...]

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So awhile ago I decided to try this thing where I’d pick something that was bugging me to pay attention to for the week. Maybe a pattern of something I was doing, or not doing. Or something I was avoiding. Or something that was triggering some icky feeling. Something generally sucky. And then without really [...]

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So on Monday’s I’m doing this pattern ritual thing where I pick a pattern to sort of notice that week. Or pay attention to. Or try to notice and pay attention to. And then I pretty much forget about it. But for some as-of-yet undiscovered reason, just the thinking about noticing and writing about thinking [...]

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Back for the Monday ritual of picking just one pattern or stuck spot to notice this week. A ritual that hopefully creates a neat container to work on our stuff. The Force. Last week I wanted to pay attention to my perception of some scary external force; the one I turn to as an approval-seeking puddle to [...]

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Last week I wrote about establishing a Monday ritual to create a container to work on our stuff. And why I think it’s helpful to try noticing and paying attention to just one thing. That pattern… I was hesitant to try the whole ritual thing this past week because I’m traveling. Being ungrounded is all [...]

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I’ve been toying with the idea of using Mondays on the blog to name and talk about a particular pattern or container of stuff (like, the internal kind) that I want to pay attention to for the week. Part of it is an impulse to introduce more ritual into my life, or more conscious ritual [...]

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I have the weirdest sense this morning of being able to do or be or create anything I want. I don’t know how to explain it, which is a pretty lame excuse since that’s kind of what you do when you write something for other people. One weird thing (and there are many) about this [...]

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