I interupt this vacation recap to share another must-see Ted Talk.
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Archive for February, 2009
Elizabeth Gilbert on Showing Up
Posted in Creativity on February 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yah Mon!!
Posted in Pure Pleasure, Reinventing on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Our trip may have gotten off to a rough start, but let me tell you Jamaica turned it ALL around!
By American standards, Jamaican life is spartan – but the people I saw there were full of joy and creativity; homes seemed simple, small, and somewhat cobbled together, but I sensed they were clean (I saw [...]
Stingray City or Bust!
Posted in Getting Outside on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve spent the better part of the the last three years learning to swim with the current; to stop struggling so hard and just go with the flow. Maybe that’s why our day on the barrier reef near Grand Cayman rankled so badly.
Don’t get me wrong, the water was crystal clear, the air cleaner than [...]
Spin Cycle
Posted in Pure Pleasure, Reinventing on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Tuesday, we arrived at Cozumel, where we unwittingly hopped aboard a high speed Hydrofoil like the one below and proceeded to shake and stir our way to Cozumel island.
I won’t profess to understand the geography behind this trip, but we were told this was the only way to get from the ship port to the major [...]
Ditching Adult Day Care
Posted in Pure Pleasure, tagged Pure Pleasure on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m usually not very good at vacationing. I have a bad habit of scheduling every second of every day – to the point that I need to come home and go back to work to get some rest!
This trip must have been specially designed for someone like me because it had not one, not two, [...]
Safety First
Posted in Pure Pleasure on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the first things you have to do after boarding a cruise ship is participate in the Safety Drill. Nobody is exempt from this. They even claim they will check rooms to make sure you attend and I have to assume, if they find you there, they will forcibly wrap a body-odor-scented life jacket around [...]
Bon Voyage
Posted in Pure Pleasure on February 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Bright and early Sunday morning, Hubby and I leave for a trip on this lovely lady. We’ll be departing Galveston, Texas for 8 days, 7 nights of fun and no worries! Our voyage will take us to Grand Cayman, Jamaica, and Cozumel (not necessarily in that order) and we have lots of adventure planned – [...]
Love Can’t be Voted Away
Posted in Inspiration, tagged Proposition 8 on February 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the unfortunate results of the November elections was the passage of Proposition 8 in California, which effectively took away the right for same-sex couples to be married. Ken Starr and the Proposition 8 Legal Defense Fund are now taking this to an unreasonable extreme and have filed legal briefs that would forcibly divorce 18,000 same-sex [...]
Angry Weather
Posted in Random Reflections on February 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It was kind of a spooky afternoon around here yesterday! Dark, angry clouds started rolling in around 3pm, turning afternoon into dusk. Then the sirens started – all of them singing together with a melancholy sort of beauty that served as our signal to check the weather channel. “It’s only February,” I thought, “it can’t [...]
Refusing to Choose
Posted in Inspiration on February 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been reading a new book by Barbara Sher called Refuse to Choose and I’m completely fired up about her “Scanner” concept. Sher suggests that some of us have trouble sticking with any one hobby, interest or passion because we’re hard-wired to be interested in many different hobbies/interests/passions.
This describes me so perfectly I almost can’t [...]
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