Comments on: Widening your world

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:14:14 +0000

Eggscellent questions. Hmmm, I was just thinking about this tonight. I’m feeling a bit stifled these days on the personal side of things and was pondering as I walked the dog how I could perk things up. I realized as I was thinking of things like going to some Spanish meet ups to practice and meet some new people that a little voice in my head was whispering how much trouble that would be. QUELLE HORREUR!! I’m gettin old and stuffy! ACKKK!

I shall use these as a guideline to silence those pesky things.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:25:52 +0000

You’re right (eek) it IS almost too easy to let the world shrink down to a smaller and smaller comfort zone. I was always trying to pull my mother out of her cocoon, and now can see myself heading the same way.

But, I did recently start keeping a daily journal (a long-promised resolution never kept) by challenging myself to write some kind of -poem- about the day that had passed. I chose that because I just don’t get poetry, especially the modern stuff, though I’m surrounded by poet friends and am trying to learn to like it, and to do it.

Hmm. Ok, tomorrow morningn I’ll try something else new for me, and see what happens. Like clean the house. (EEK again!)

Thanks for a great post!

By: phhhst

phhhst — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:23:28 +0000

Good question! Hmm. I’d say teaching high school keeps me abreast of what’s going on with teens – not to mention the two of my own who continually try to run our home. Second, my bookclub, which has mostly middle aged women, but with a very wide perspective base. Third – going online this year.