A Mindful Life

A little early morning creativity in my journal. It’s mixed media collage on 7 x 10″ sketch paper. The quote is by Hui-Neng, and it’s been a favorite of mine for years.

The Secret Is Within Your Self

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
–Richard Feynman

At least, this seems the case with certain people who have the misfortune of being adult and being prominent in my daily life. (Now, who might that be? Poor guy.) *sigh* I really need to find a way to release tension more constructively so that it doesn’t turn rank and poisonous in me and then [...]

The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.
–William Gibson

Knitting is love, looped and warm.
–Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Yarn Harlot: the Secret Life of a Knitter

Cleaning and scrubbing can wait for tomorrow,
For babies grow up, I’ve learned, to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust, go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby, and babies don’t keep.
–Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

On June 14 will be the third Worldwide Knit In Public Day. From the website:
Knitting is such a solitary act that it’s easy to knit alone somewhere and sink into your work without thinking about all the other knitters out there. Neighbors could spend all their lives never knowing that the other knits. This a [...]

I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
–Henri Matisse

The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.
–Willie Tyler

And I’m a little slow adapting mentally.
Now Claire wakes at 6 a.m. So do I. We’re going 3 to 3.5 hours before her first nap (she won’t sleep unless she’s really tired). That puts my free time to take a shower smack at the same time Husband gets up to shower. She’s not really napping [...]