AIG, outrage and getting things done

I’m beginning to wonder if this ongoing headache I have is caused by all of the eye rolling I’m doing when hearing or reading about people’s Outrage over the AIG bonuses. This is why I need to just stop traditional media news input. O, the drama. Please. It’s as if journalists, politicians and consumers-turned-citizens have [...]

Forced frugality

Phew. ::looks around:: ::dusts self off:: So life chez Ferry is full of shifts and changes and the requisite stress and low-grade depression that tends to accompany such shifts and changes. It’s difficult to carve out the mental space for doing fun things like writing blog posts or novel chapters or essays to try to [...]

The tide is high, but I’m moving on

I should be in the garden right now. It’s a gorgeous 80º afternoon, and I have several layers of newspaper spread out to smother weeds (o, the weeds!) in the beds I made this spring…and the paper is in need of some leaves, grass and straw to weigh it down. If I don’t take care [...]

True north and points beyond

Thank you for the comments, emails etc…I miss you too and I read, though rarely comment anymore. I’m fine, just feeling quiet. Living it all instead of recording it for a change—honoring the pull to simply be in it observing my own reactions. That’s me there, soaking up the sun and shaping my world as [...]

Grass is high and the weeds higher still

I’m reevaluating everything. All of the assumptions I had made about what direction my life should take this year are just vaporizing in the heat of uncertainty. Or maybe it’s the fact that I suddenly have too many possibilities. Or maybe it’s that when it comes down to it, I’m just afraid to commit to [...]

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