Learned: Safeway is shopped so hard in the first week of the month during storms that the website can’t keep up, but the spendy, better quality bread was still available. When my body pain is ever-present, my spirit droops when on my own. I am interested in the health benefits of going dairy-free and plant-based, but I am still not interested in maintaining any kind of extreme long-term diet plan. That if it is made with sugar, it’s not for me. 3.
Grateful for: Simple, well-made bread that toasts and butters nicely. The contributions of Barbara Walters & Judy Woodruff. The space I give myself to catch up, so life doesn’t occur as too much. 3.
Accomplished Made an agreement with the California Franchise Tax Board to settle up on some way-back taxes. Washed a bunch of tea towels and got the kitchen cloth “drawer” sorted. Made chili myself, although not vegetarian. 3.
Thinking about: How a flare-up can still take me out. That it is taking me so long to get these submitted that I wonder, truly, if I am committed. How first-of-the-month shopping wasn’t easy this time around, following a 9-day inflammation flare-up that seemed barometric-pressure related. How I want to get back out there and how my body frequently stops me. 3+1.
Funny:
Reading/Listening/Watching right now: It turns out I was working nights when Battlestar Galactica came out, so I am watching the whole series. No wonder everyone’s so freaked out about AI and The Singularity.
Finished listening to “The Untethered Soul” by Michael A. Singer has been on my list for a while, and in listening to it, I get that Michael is quite insistent about this being the path, but we are on the same page. (I would language parts of it a bit differently.) (Check out the top five takeaways generated by our favorite AI, ChatGPT.)
Listening to “How to Stand Up to a Dictator” by Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Seems (dropped down to here as I am collecting these instead of collaging):
like I get body aches when a storm hits, and it takes me many moons to recover;
like I have agreed to some “good” superstitions that may no longer apply;
Previously:
like the things I do that involve giving money make little difference;
like I’m trapped in a network of conversations for remembering/forgetting;
like I have, of course, forgotten a lot of the practices that “made me what I am”;
like I’m going along fine, and then BAM, something happens;
like there isn’t any knowable way that “it is”;
like life comes at me hard and fast, and I always need a longer break than I get;
that my healthy choices still aren’t healthy for my situation;
like I used to be able to eat more than I can now.
3+.
New Habit(s)(dropped down to here as I am collecting and updating these):
Black coffee for months now and intentionally bringing JOY to it, but alternating with Oaty milk and a little sweetener.
Still going toward dairy-free, plant-based information for my body’s cells, allowing for some animal proteins as we change the pantry contents and absent-mindedly use butter instead of its substitutes.
Increase capacities slowly, and they might stick.
Checking messages and replying on Emergent Commons – this is not as frequent as some may like!
Ecology of Practices: MOVED TO HERE: