Every season opens up with a new and refreshing urge to read. The spring brings this along with the warmer temperatures. The sun is shining, the days are lengthening and the library and bookstores beckon to me afresh.
I am already prepared for all my Austen reading (which I have fallen shamelessly behind on). I am just finishing up Emma and will start on Mansfield Park shortly. But woman cannot subsist on Austen alone. Oh no. There must be a well balanced diet of literature. I just got Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood from the library (that covers Science Fiction) and I just requested a copy of The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections (which covers "Self Help") and I bought Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (covers both food and memoir categories) and I am now realizing that all my picks are by female authors. I guess that means that I need to read more male authored books this fall along with my plan of delving back into Shakespeare if I am truly going for balanced. Oh and maybe I need more foreign literature in the mix, too?
Life is too short and there are too many books to read...
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Catch-up, Ketchup, Catsup
That is why I haven't blogged. I am playing catch up and living life, the life where there is a lot of ketchup (or catsup) served on almost anything to my two little wonderful Yahoos.
That and when I get into a dark mood, I don't like to blog too much because then it's just a big long complaint about my own personal toils and struggles and who wants to read that? Everyone has their own kind of nonsense to deal with and so why should I go on and on about my own? So I decided to keep it to myself, get through it, and am currently "brushing the dirt off my shoulder" (I couldn't resist). The sun is shining and "there is nothing to do today, but smile" and so I am. Smiling.
I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes just making a list, however long and detailed and incredibly impossible to complete writing let alone actually get around to finishing the tasks, makes me feel so good. Accomplished. I could write lists and lists and just that feeling of getting it all out of my head and neatly onto paper or in my schedule or phone, I feel like the hardest part is over. I have been making lists and have been focusing on tasks and coming to see the things that truly count.
Rather than going into it all, one major thing has come to me. I don't know if this is an actual saying, but here it is:
It's not the quantity in life, but the quality of life that you lead.
That is what I have been learning. I might not have all the quantities of the things I want for my family and my children, but when it comes to the quality part, that is what I have been focusing on. Maybe the quantity part will come later after I have learned my lesson on quality!
I am returning to my lists and staying focused. The past month has been a busy derailment (is that even a word?), but I have a wonderful sunny day to literally dry out from the rain, take a breather, and have some quality family time... which seems to include a lot of ketchup.
That's all my rambling for now...
PS- If you get all my references to songs, etc., I will bake you a batch of cookies.
That and when I get into a dark mood, I don't like to blog too much because then it's just a big long complaint about my own personal toils and struggles and who wants to read that? Everyone has their own kind of nonsense to deal with and so why should I go on and on about my own? So I decided to keep it to myself, get through it, and am currently "brushing the dirt off my shoulder" (I couldn't resist). The sun is shining and "there is nothing to do today, but smile" and so I am. Smiling.
I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes just making a list, however long and detailed and incredibly impossible to complete writing let alone actually get around to finishing the tasks, makes me feel so good. Accomplished. I could write lists and lists and just that feeling of getting it all out of my head and neatly onto paper or in my schedule or phone, I feel like the hardest part is over. I have been making lists and have been focusing on tasks and coming to see the things that truly count.
Rather than going into it all, one major thing has come to me. I don't know if this is an actual saying, but here it is:
It's not the quantity in life, but the quality of life that you lead.
That is what I have been learning. I might not have all the quantities of the things I want for my family and my children, but when it comes to the quality part, that is what I have been focusing on. Maybe the quantity part will come later after I have learned my lesson on quality!
I am returning to my lists and staying focused. The past month has been a busy derailment (is that even a word?), but I have a wonderful sunny day to literally dry out from the rain, take a breather, and have some quality family time... which seems to include a lot of ketchup.
That's all my rambling for now...
PS- If you get all my references to songs, etc., I will bake you a batch of cookies.
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