Tag: New Year Resolutions
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The Year of Easing
I opened my emails on a Saturday evening, for the first time that week, and found the twice-yearly notification of the next rental inspection. Time to be judged again. Co-incidentally, I was looking back through my bullet journal and noted a margin note made in January: “IDEA: Year of Easing”. Looks like I was pondering…
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Rebooting a weekend project
It’s a new year, but that wasn’t the trigger. The trigger, the light bulb moment, was the red lawn mower sitting in the middle of my dusty backyard. There is a photo in a similar vein, although dustier, from my 2019 weekend project, 12:32pm Saturday. Saturday, 2 February, 2019 “Why not!”, I decided with an…
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I forgot
I forgot that 2021 was my Year of Remembering. The leaves have fallen, the year half done, and finally it has dawned on me. At the beginning of each year, I usually write something to get things started, usually about the possibilities that the latest theme might bring. But not this year. It could have…
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Adding my voice to the passing of 2020
I started 2020 by dedicating it as My Year of Less Distractions. Who would have thought a global pandemic, with lockdowns, would play directly into that aim. Thankfully, no conspiracy theory was triggered. As 2020 draws to a close, we are being regaled with the usual round of reflective newspaper articles, blog posts, tubie videos…
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Mid-year review of distractions
The book is permanently open. It won’t close. It’s stuck. I could force it by stacking it under something heavy. The book is my bullet journal. I started it in January as part of my Year of Less Distractions because the man in the video said it would help reduce distractions. Does it? Yes, but…
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Scouring up some nourishment
YouTube Again! Still distracting me, BUT (and it is a ‘but’ in capital letters) it’s proving useful. Leaving the fashion parades for another post, this is about the latest trigger that popped up in a Feng Shui video in my YouTube feed. The exquisitely made-up lady in her beautifully presented home said (in translation) that…
Cherrie Zell 