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RTBTCKI Ash Wednesday 2019
Mar. 6th, 2019 09:29 amI have been thinking a lot about this Lenten season that starts today. Caroline has as well.
It is a time for reflection and that classic question, “So what are you giving up for Lent?”
I try for both sides of the coin. I give something up but I also try to do something positive as well.
I am giving up my noodling time on the Internet or rather reducing it to a controlled number of minutes.
I am going to take 10 minutes a day for meditation/prayer. 10 minutes in quiet contemplation which, if you know me, is not as easy as it sounds.
There are some starlings outside the living room window and the cats are all at the window watching them very carefully. I see muzzles twitching as they watch. They have turned the zum-zums into cat toys. I found about a dozen in Fig’s bed and now they are in Inky’s bed and Mewlan’s sleeping box as well. Either they were distributed by one cat or they are stealing them for each other and making their own treasure troves like little dragons.
We saw Captain Marvel last night. Caroline adored it. I think it became her favorite Marvel film. There was a touching tribute to Stan Lee that was just lovely. The cast did great. The story and direction were solid. It went places that I didn’t think it was going to go but it made sense once we got there. Don’t let people spoil it for you. See it and make your own discoveries. This morning Caroline went to school wearing her Captain Marvel jacket. I will put out a review probably this weekend.
I am trying to put something out here once a day. Getting back into the writing habit that is consistent rather than not. I am not going to beat myself up mentally if I miss a day but I find doing this helps with the rest of the day. Kind of gets my brain started up.
I can tell when the brain is really in a good place when I can easily do a Sudoku puzzle. When I see patterns in the numbers it says that my brain is engaged.
I am grateful that I saw Captain Marvel without any spoilers.
It is a time for reflection and that classic question, “So what are you giving up for Lent?”
I try for both sides of the coin. I give something up but I also try to do something positive as well.
I am giving up my noodling time on the Internet or rather reducing it to a controlled number of minutes.
I am going to take 10 minutes a day for meditation/prayer. 10 minutes in quiet contemplation which, if you know me, is not as easy as it sounds.
There are some starlings outside the living room window and the cats are all at the window watching them very carefully. I see muzzles twitching as they watch. They have turned the zum-zums into cat toys. I found about a dozen in Fig’s bed and now they are in Inky’s bed and Mewlan’s sleeping box as well. Either they were distributed by one cat or they are stealing them for each other and making their own treasure troves like little dragons.
We saw Captain Marvel last night. Caroline adored it. I think it became her favorite Marvel film. There was a touching tribute to Stan Lee that was just lovely. The cast did great. The story and direction were solid. It went places that I didn’t think it was going to go but it made sense once we got there. Don’t let people spoil it for you. See it and make your own discoveries. This morning Caroline went to school wearing her Captain Marvel jacket. I will put out a review probably this weekend.
I am trying to put something out here once a day. Getting back into the writing habit that is consistent rather than not. I am not going to beat myself up mentally if I miss a day but I find doing this helps with the rest of the day. Kind of gets my brain started up.
I can tell when the brain is really in a good place when I can easily do a Sudoku puzzle. When I see patterns in the numbers it says that my brain is engaged.
I am grateful that I saw Captain Marvel without any spoilers.
