Month: January 2009

Perspective –per spek tiv -Noun A technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. the state of one’s ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship Do you ever get so focused on one particular aspect of a thing only to realize you are seeing it differently than…

How often have we been told to never surrender?  Never quit trying!  If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!  When you fall off that horse, you’ve got to get right back in that saddle!  Rehab is for quitters! There was a point in today’s challenge that this slightly resembled my hand.  That was…

Today’s Everyday Matters challenge was to draw a bit of organized chaos.  Wow if that’s not my whole life in a nutshell!  Every where I look there’s a book I’m reading or mean to read or just finished reading.  There’s a pile of magazines scattered through my office full of projects for me to take…

It really feels good to just stop thinking about the day and spend just a few minutes completing one of these challenges.  It works as a practical meditation for me.  They say that anything you do for 21 days has a 50% chance of becoming a lifelong habit.  Today is day 8, the first day…

For at least the last thirteen years, my little family has maintained a membership at the zoo.  For a nominal fee we gain unlimited visits.  This comes in really handy for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is all of the entertainment value when you can’t afford anything else. Today was absolutetly…