From the fuzziness of contemplation come some of our best ideas.--paraphrase from Carr article (July/Aug Atlantic 2008)
so i'm going to rework quiet time into my life. i've been needing to do this. I can't keep hopping out of bed just as i am about to fall asleep because i have had yet another idea. I'm very grateful and excited to work on the ideas i'm having, but dedicating time to it is good. My friend Kaylene always inspires me, and she wrote about not regretting time spent well. Her post pretty much sums up my life since Wallace was born, and NO MORE. I am going to enjoy my family when we are all together instead of sequestering myself into busy work that can be done LATER.
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alisha i just want to say that your blog rocks, and EVERYONE I KNOW reads it!!!!
Thank you for putting up that link. I like it when people point me to good posts, since I mostly only read blogs about people I know but there are so many other great people and ideas out there I would love to access.
She's right, very right. The time we have to spend with our family is the most scrumptious time we will ever have, even if the house is a disaster or we have half a dozen projects we could be working on. It's important to simplify (simplify, simplify, simplify) our lives so that we can enjoy what truly matters. I went through my patriarchal blessing a couple of days ago and pulled out the specific things that I might classify as "my mission". Those things were blessedly specific and surprisingly few. My new goal is to focus on those things every day and not take on any unnecessary projects that are not related to my mission. Because a HUGE part of why I am here is to be a wife and a mother and everything I do that is unrelated, while it might be good, detracts from my ability to do that well.
That's why I never brought up that neighborhood blog again. [sheepishly:] Sorry.
Oh gosh Alisha I have been so absent from the internet -- sorry for not getting back to you sooner and thanks so much for your nice words; you always make my day! I will most definitely be making time to catch up on your blog once we get power back (I'm at a friend's right now). Happy Wednesday!
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