I’m alive!
Grania on Jun 09 2009 at 11:04 pm | Filed under: Randomness, The Journey, the body project
Really, but I haven’t had much time/energy to write lately, so here’s a few random thoughts:
- I feel good. I started treadmilling on Sunday. Two days on, one day off. One mile a day to start with. I’ll up that as I feel ready to do more. For now a mile is enough. It doesn’t kill me, but I feel like I did something, which is right where exercise should leave you, right?
- The food part is following. I’m eating better. Not great yet, but better. As time goes on that will improve. Right now I’m consciously stopping myself from changing everything all at once. Exercise first.
- My new bed will be here Thursday. I’ll probably set it up Saturday.
- I’m the senior staff member at work for a couple of days. It just adds to the intensity. I’m glad that the exercise is helping my sleeping. I was pretty clear headed today. I needed it today.
- The news is crazy lately. I try not to pay attention other than a basic awareness of what’s going on in the world, but seriously, an airplane down in the ocean, Chrysler’s sale to Fiat, and Adam Lambert is gay are not 3 stories that belong together.
- Seriously, who does it personally affect whether Adam Lambert likes boys or not? This world isn’t going to get any better as long as crap like that is newsworthy. He’s one of the most musically creative talents to come from Idol. Pay attention to that, and how that energy carries him into a career. I don’t plan on sleeping with the guy, so his sexuality makes no difference to me.
- And while we’re on that subject, David Carradine is dead. I liked him a lot, for most of my life. Kung Fu was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. If I had to pinpoint when I got interested in Eastern philosophy, that show would be the beginning of that. He contributed a respectable body of work to the entertainment world. No matter what the circumstances of his death were, they should be a private matter kept within his family. There’s no excuse for the details that got out, the Thai police should be ashamed of themselves.
- I’m writing a piece based on this quote that I had on my old blog: “Only the walker who sets out toward ultimate things is a pilgrim. In this lies the terrible difference between tourist and pilgrim. The tourist travels just as far, sometimes with great zeal and courage, gathering up acquisitions (a string of adventures, a wondrous tale or two) and returns the same person as the one who departed. There is something inexpressibly sad in the clutter of belongings the tourist unpacks back at home. The pilgrim is different. The pilgrim resolves that the one who returns will not be the same person as the one who set out.“ If it turns out the way I think it will, I’ll post it when I finish it.
