“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ― Tahereh Mafi
Phix's Curiosity: what sparks my interest
Watch this space to see what's sparked my interest this week. A random grab bag of delights!
Moments of realization. They're so strange sometimes. Recently a friend described me using words I'd used for myself this summer/early fall and I startled with the realization that I had outgrown that skin. Now I have a shiny new skin. I have what I learned in that old skin as a tool in my toolbox, but I don't have to rely on it day to day. It's a relief to realize I'm in a different space.
I'm also in a space where I have so much opportunity - my limit is almost only myself right now. Which is both freeing and... sort of alarming. But I think it's going to be fun... more about fun in a bit...
Medusa's Garden
When you need every one and everything around you to just stop.
What do you do when you don't want things to stop? When the garden is lonely? When what you need to refill your heart and mind and soul is no longer solitude but long, deep conversations, heart-felt connection, joy and wonder with friends, projects and work that is satisfying and rewarding? How do you step out of the garden or invite friends in for a garden party?
Ariadne's Yarn: playing with threads
What I'm up to with fiber and possibly how mythology and stories all tie together.
At Halloween I treated myself to a lovely merino-silk blend, four ounces, of black, grey, orange, and white. All spun up and I just need to set it tonight. As with most things I spin up, not sure what it's going to be quite yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing what this turns into. :)
Now it's back to spinning up the amethyst mixed color merino that I was working on. I'm still working on the scarf... I need to wrap that up and get something else on the needles & something on the loom. The loom is cold and ready to be set up again.
Mythic Librarian: the art of arranging a life
Thoughts on ontology and ways to organize a life.
So the same friend and I were talking at lunch today, and it comes up that they'd been to a talk by a fellow who had framed some epic adventure using three types of fun (am waiting for confirmation that it was a talk by this guy -Suffering for the Fun of It). Basically, there are three types of fun:
Fun that's fun while you're doing it, fun in the moment.
Fun that's work while you're doing it, but you look back on and realize it was fun and it provides a significant sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.
And the third type is "fun" - the things that aren't fun at all in the moment or really after, but that you *sort of* laugh about around a campfire or wherever at the sheer ridiculousness or epicness... it's the "well, that was a good story anyway..." The stuff you do when you think, "Well... I guess I'll probably laugh about this... someday... maybe..."
It had not occurred to me that there might be a taxonomy of fun, but there it is! There are, of course, more types of fun than just these, but in the moment and in retrospect it was a fun conversation. :)