While I find that I can get use to most things with time, there always appears to be one or two things that just seem to remain a bind, remaining a niggling presence or felt obligation in my life. ✍🏻
I’ve just updated my Now page.
The Introvert and The Wet Weather
In this little corner of Hawai’i the wet weather has been slow in coming. While the seasonal changes are not as noticeable as in the far northern hemisphere, there is a subtle, perceptible change in the atmosphere - the light, the sensed feeling of the days. Autumn arrived a few weeks ago . . . in part. The part that was missing was the wet weather, the rain. Days have been hot, the sun piercing in its strength.
Today we were going to inflate some balloons and have a Lu’au to celebrate my grandson’s first birthday. However, both grandsons have had a cold and so the celebrations have been postponed until next week…though the weather doesn’t look too good then. Fingers crossed🤞🏻. ✍🏻
I’m exploring and experimenting with the new wallpapers that came with iOS 14.2.
Rain, rain, rain. It is overcast and wet outside. We’ve needed it. ☔️
Those days - hours/weeks/months? - when I could just disappear into a world of thought and reflection.
When I question other people’s choices, I need to remind myself that they probably find some of my choices just as puzzling. ✍🏻
I sat in the car in a parking lot to do a short loving kindness meditation before heading home. Creating a pause in the day, and a softening of the heart. I did, however, forget the Book in the Car.
I’m of below average height and wonder what it would be like to be so tall that I would have to stoop to pass under a doorway, or to be able to see over a crowd. ✍🏻
Book in the Car
In my attempt to read more, I have put a book in the glove compartment of my car. I am not the fastest of readers, and find that I do not have a lot of time to read - perhaps a few pages before turning off the light at night. Other opportunities are grabbed here and there…and that was the motivation for the book in the glove compartment idea. No, I do not intend to read and drive.
I am happy where I live, but at times I do wish my family lived nearer to me, or me to them. My parents, sister’s family and I are spread between England, New Zealand and Hawai’i. In part it is a yearning for family to be closer, in part it is a yearning for home. ✍🏻
Noticing how my mind looks for or manufactures distractions when I don’t want to do that job.
OK, enough for tonight. Results have slowed down to snail pace now. This feels too close to call, but going to bed with fingers crossed.
I’m finding the sound of rain falling outside quite soothing right now.
It’s 8:45pm here in Hawai’i. I have been listening to NPR since 6:15 while eating dinner, alongside keeping an eye on websites and Twitter. I’m normally in bed quite early, but I don’t think so tonight. Election Night.
For those reading this blog who do not use the Micro.blog blogging platform, if you see the emoji, ✍🏻, I am using it to denote that the entry is a part of Micro.blog’s November blogging challenge, Microblogvember.
As I sit and think about what to write that includes Microblogvember’s word for day three, astonish, I feel as though I am forcing a blog entry. Might that be because I do not use the word often, or that I use a synonym instead? Or do I simply lack imagination?! ✍🏻
I concentrate best when I am by myself with no one buzzing around, or even working in the same space. The paradoxical aside from that is if I am by myself, in an airport lounge or similar. Then I am alone in the company of others. Such is the nature of this introvert. ✍🏻
And “Dinosaur Family” from yesterday evening. 🦖🦕
