Radiate the Dance: The Simple Woman's Daybook 092508

Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Simple Woman's Daybook 092508

The Simple Woman's Daybook, a daily journal, aka a feature of The Simple Woman blog.

I ran across this very excellent idea from the blogger, High Desert Home, last month, and have been wanting to try it out for a while. Happy Thursday!

For Today...Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Outside my Window...cloudy skies and stirring, strong breezes.

Towards a daily rhythm...doing some light yoga to keep myself limber and strong and just plain *awake*!

I am thinking...about lesson plan ideas for my students.

I am thankful for...a warm house and sleeping cats and chatty emails from friends.

From the kitchen...orange juice and melted cheese on multi-grain bread sounds good to me.

I am wearing...comfy grey maternity leggings and a dark, three-quarters length maternity top with a blue and lavender pinstripe. Chicer than some of my non-maternity wear!

I am reading...Brazelton's Touchpoints - Milestones in Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development and finishing When the Tide Rises, sci-fi from David Drake.

I am creating...yet more squares for a colorful bed quilt, and a lesson plan for next week.

I am hoping...that I can go for my Masters in a few years. And that the tent is not hopelessly ruined by being stored damp (after the last rainy dance weekend).

I am hearing...the far-off sounds of interstate traffic and the closer sounds of a tree rubbing against the gutter, little grey birds scolding each other, and my wind chimes dancing in the breeze.

I am going to breathe deeply...and appreciate the life growing inside me. Hi, baby!

Around the house...the kitchen is a mess.

Bring beauty to my home...by sweeping the wood floors. Ahhh.

One of my favorite things...creating something with my hands, shaping a lesson plan.

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...I need to air out the tent and pack for a dance weekend, most likely in the rain! I need to write up a list of questions to ask the OB at my next appointment. I need to call around to local handymen for help with the new kitchen.

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...

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Quotes of Creativity & Inspiration (& Humor):

"When the wolf is chasing the sleigh, throw him a raisin cookie, but don't stop to bake him a cake."

-Banacek

"Without chaos, there can't be magic."

"If you don't know what to do, try *something*."

-Dean Storelli

"If it works, keep on doing it.

If it doesn't, stop.

Stop worrying about why it does (or doesn't) work, unless you really need a grant."

-Ted Klein

"Don't wait for inspiration; it comes while working."

-Henri Matisse

"Writing is like running a delicate jackhammer, like pounding surf leaving behind a trail of lace."

-Clarisa Pinkola Estes

"We remember wholeness so readily, because we don't have very far to look for it. It is always within us, usually as a vague feeling or memory left over from when we were children. But it is a deeply familiar memory, one you recognize immediately as soon as you feel it again, like coming home after being away a long time.

When you are immerse in doing without being centered, it feels like being away from home. And when you reconnect with being, even for a few moments, you know it immediately. You feel like you are at home no matter where you are and what problems you face."

-Jon Kabbat-Zinn, Ph.D.
from Full Catastrophe Living

"Expanding, contracting, expanding, contracting, your mind moves like your lungs or heart; widening as it opens to digest and create new patterns in your unconscious mind, contracting as it concentrates to express them through your conscious mind."

-Dawna Markova, Ph.D.
from The Open Mind

"In story, there's an ebb and flow that is life moving. It make sense of the past and carried us into the future. It connects people to people, invents, heartens us, passes information on how to live, helps us see our lives as a wonderful adventure."

-Maxine Hong Kingston

"Write every day, even if it's just for a few minutes. Keep alive as a writer. ... Regardless of the fad, it's important to write one's own life and the life of all people around you."

-Maxine Hong Kingston

"I would die immediately if I could not create daily."

-Luc de Groot

"I find myself looking back on the Golden Days in Yosemite with supreme envy. I think I came closer to really living then than at any other time in my life, because I was closer to elemental things... Now I long to get back to it all - to fuel the contact of everyday, commonplace material, primitive things - Rock - Water - Wood - and unanalyzed love and friendship.... I want to write - I want to take pictures. "

-Ansel Adams

"Everything that's alive is going somewhere."

-Robin Hobb

"The world is green!

Lots of mosquitos!"

-Skip Nodler

"Writing is like exercising. You got to do it often and it's not always divine."

-Daniel Colvin

Quotes of Humor

"Feeding two newborns at once is a little like trying to catch two feral cats simultaneously and dress them in tiny roller disco costumes. The satin jackets aren't so bad, but the eight tiny roller skates will fucking kill you."
-Akeeyu

"I just don't buy the idea that men and women are light years apart and we need someone to explain us to each other. We all want the same things. Attention. Understanding. Support. Oral. Four things, basically. We want someone to grok us, we want to feel special, we want encouragement in our endeavors, and we want oral. And possibly pizza."

- Marrit Ingman

"Listen, just because something is zeitgeist-fully prominent does not mean that it is "new.""

- mimi smartypants