sometimes work is fine, sometimes it’s not. today there were sharks out. they can smell blood. they hear it in your voice. they feel your vulnerability, they can tell you are already having a bad day. they become unreasonable. they make you personally responsible for every single thing that is wrong. they call you by [...]
We renewed our domain name the other day, which means that clearbluecup is one year old! happy birthday website!!
I came home from my corporate-team-run-around-in-the-rain-and-use-yellow-rope-and-elastic-bands-to-pick-up-ping-pong-balls-as-a-team-challenge, and I thought, “Is this my life? Is this my house? Am I really responsible for making sure we have toothpaste and the carpet is vaccumed every week?” There was some part of me that awoke when I was deemed to be the most capable map-reader and the one [...]
life’s been busy, busy, busy lately… easter was a bit of a whirl. we spent it half at home and half in west cork, and visited a friend who was having a bender-warming party. A bender is a temporary dwelling, kind of like a tent/hobbit house/overground cave/garden greenhouse tunnel made out of birch branches and [...]
A strange week – unnaturally warm weather, social outings with people from work, early mornings and lazy afternoons. and feeling the fragility of my body – joints aching, I scraped a knuckle with the potato peeler, and I got a blister on my foot. not to mention the belly I am growing from daily scones [...]
we went to a party in west cork again this weekend. It was a spur of the moment thing – I called bill to talk about the website and then noah got on the phone to tell us about this party. I didn’t have any funky clothes to wear because I’d sort of given up [...]
I read this article that tom sent me today. It’s about depression, and a new way of treating it. Basically, the therapist plants a metaphorical seed during therapy in the form of a story or anectdote, an illustration. The patient goes away and while they are dreaming at night, the seed sprouts and allows them [...]
I am putting out a new leaf. I am working hard at being a social being. last night, I was feeling droopy. it’s cloudy outside again. I wanted to go wandering around town in the afternoon looking at things and shopping for clothes and house stuff but never really managed to get out of the [...]
I was feeling artistically inspired at the carwash: Then later, we were driving down to west cork and saw some farmers herding cattle across the highway (yes, this is the main road): We just recently got a webcam, and tried it out for the first time this weekend. It was fun fun fun, but also [...]
