Taking care

I'm finding that "taking care" in some sense is more available the last few months than it's been in the past few years. So, things like: 1. Putting stuff away, as inspired by Tidying Up. Like: Folding and putting away a blanket I'

What if I were serious?

A thing I'm noticing I can ask myself is: What if I were serious? That is, given some topic – what if I were serious about that? What if I were serious about this class I'm taking? What if I were serious about online dating? What if

Focus

Focusing is hard. There's too much to be done, even limiting to things that I care to do. Focusing means (?) picking just one or two of those to do, and not doing the rest. Unkindly, that is: Leaving the rest to rot. That is difficult. Maybe a better

Write in the box

When thinking of sending a message in Discord, I have sometimes drafted messages in Emacs or Notepad. I'm afraid of fatfingering the message before I've finished writing it. If I write it somewhere else, there's no problem. I can copy and paste when I&

Quietude

I have sometimes found myself being quiet. Sometimes it is also withdrawn. In college I often found myself sitting with friends in a common area, on a sofa or a stool, smiling and nodding, sometimes laughing or giving a thoughtful "mmm." And that's it. That'