The zoo is full of a variety of animals from different regions. Is our brain like a zoo? We have our family-life, friend-life, work-life, things we are reading, things we want to do, shopping lists, hobbies, technical information, things we wish we didn’t know…all running through our brains. I started this A-Z challenge with the …
Category Archives: A to Z Challenge 2016
Year
We divide our lives into years. Our birthday marks a new year. January first often encourages us to establish new goals. Gretchen Rubin says that September, the beginning of a new school year, is also significant to her. Sometimes I feel like a new month is a fresh start. Is a year still the best …
X-Crossed Out
Going back to lists. I like to draw a line through items I accomplish and mark the things I didn’t accomplish with an X indicating it is carried over. However, if I was using an agenda book that displayed a week across two pages, when I did complete the task, I went back and crossed …
Visionary
Definition of visionary having or showing clear ideas about what should happen or be done in the future having or showing a powerful imagination of or relating to something that is seen or imagined in a dream or vision (sense 3) Source: Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary I’ve noticed I often have images of how things should …
Wisdom
Wisdom is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and is actually the highest of all the gifts which include understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. When God asked King Solomon (from the Old Testament from the bible) to ask him for anything and He would grant it, Solomon …
The Ugly Phase
When I took painting lessons (art not house) the instructor warned us there would be an ugly phase when we would just hate our painting. He reminded us not to give up on it, but not keep going then and ruin it. So I would take a break, go for a walk, and come back …
Taoism +
Bear with me, I’m getting to it. Occasionally on this blog I have shared some Buddhist ideas. I have been wanting to sprinkle in some of my own faith, Catholicism. We may think of Catholicism as more about rules, formal rituals, and prayer which there is; but there is a meditative side to it that …
Silence and Stillness
I think we need times for both silence and stillness. I consider silence as quiet time when we’re not on the go. Throughout the day we occupy ourselves with work, phones, TV, people, and whatever else. We don’t have time to just sit and think so when we try to go to bed we just …
Revealing
To reveal is to share or expose something. Often times we hold back on revealing things for various reasons. Maybe we really don’t want anyone to know. Maybe we think no one will care. Maybe we don’t think it’s significant in the grand scheme of things. Maybe we just don’t want to argue or …
Quizzes
I like to do those quizzes that pop up on the Facebook feed. I always wonder how they come up with the results because they often seem to describe me accurately. My favorite was one about which Disney characters I was most similar too and I was 60% Merida and 40% Mulan and the description …
Possibility & Light 