Comments on: Seven days, seven lessons http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/ Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast - Khalil Gibran Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: claire http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-37890 claire Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:29:07 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1505#comment-37890 I find the morning pages a wonderful companion leading to unexpected paths. I find the morning pages a wonderful companion leading to unexpected paths.

]]> By: Abbey of the Arts http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-37818 Abbey of the Arts Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:55:19 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1505#comment-37818 Lots of wonderful awareness and insight here Tess. I am so thrilled for you on this journey and seeing what you discover. Rituals are great to help create containers for your time and intentional transitions between activities. I love the idea of offering yourself extended time to rest and heal. What incredible energy will rise from this place of renewal! Lots of wonderful awareness and insight here Tess. I am so thrilled for you on this journey and seeing what you discover. Rituals are great to help create containers for your time and intentional transitions between activities. I love the idea of offering yourself extended time to rest and heal. What incredible energy will rise from this place of renewal!

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-37730 Tess Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:39:42 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1505#comment-37730 Barbara, I've been thinking about your comment. I also procrastinate, horribly. Sometimes I can hardly believe how long I've left something. I suspect those of us who procrastinate do so for different reasons - fear, embarrassment, rebellion. I know that for myself I procrastinate things I want to do as much as those I don't, and I'm still working that one out! Barbara, I’ve been thinking about your comment. I also procrastinate, horribly. Sometimes I can hardly believe how long I’ve left something. I suspect those of us who procrastinate do so for different reasons – fear, embarrassment, rebellion. I know that for myself I procrastinate things I want to do as much as those I don’t, and I’m still working that one out!

]]> By: Barbara http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-37699 Barbara Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:46:03 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1505#comment-37699 Tess, you are more together than I am. My days still bleed into one another. If I can procrastinate, I will. I even procrastinate eating! We do need some kind of ritual and structure to our days. It is so difficult for me to do this. So terribly difficult. It is as if I <i>require</i> some external body to tell me to do something. I don't have the status within myself to organize my life. Maybe I am just in recovery after all those years of being a good, little, responsible girl. And the computer sucks my life away, too! I was without a computer for a few days and I was not at all surprised at what I got accomplished and the energy it gave me. Unfortunately, my cyberdude got my new computer finished a day sooner than promised. Tess, you are more together than I am. My days still bleed into one another. If I can procrastinate, I will. I even procrastinate eating! We do need some kind of ritual and structure to our days. It is so difficult for me to do this. So terribly difficult. It is as if I require some external body to tell me to do something. I don’t have the status within myself to organize my life. Maybe I am just in recovery after all those years of being a good, little, responsible girl. And the computer sucks my life away, too! I was without a computer for a few days and I was not at all surprised at what I got accomplished and the energy it gave me. Unfortunately, my cyberdude got my new computer finished a day sooner than promised.

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-37682 Tess Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:31:14 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1505#comment-37682 @Blisschick: Thank you for these helpful, practical tips. And thank you even more for the PS. ROAR! @Liz: Eggs! I should perhaps explain that Lizzie, who is my sister, is keen for me to adopt some ex-battery chickens now I have the time to care for them. Perhaps I could feed them to my cats... @kel: You hit the nail on the head on the question of the day-job identity. I do like to have a role to play, so this is a good challenge to be myself, not the role. I'll probably do a post about Sabbath practices soon. @lucy: I must also be careful not to spend all day glued to the net. There is so much to explore... And as well as morning pages snippets perhaps I might manage to post occasionally to Pilgrim's Moon. @Blisschick: Thank you for these helpful, practical tips. And thank you even more for the PS. ROAR!
@Liz: Eggs! I should perhaps explain that Lizzie, who is my sister, is keen for me to adopt some ex-battery chickens now I have the time to care for them. Perhaps I could feed them to my cats…
@kel: You hit the nail on the head on the question of the day-job identity. I do like to have a role to play, so this is a good challenge to be myself, not the role. I’ll probably do a post about Sabbath practices soon.
@lucy: I must also be careful not to spend all day glued to the net. There is so much to explore… And as well as morning pages snippets perhaps I might manage to post occasionally to Pilgrim’s Moon.

]]> By: lucy http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-37668 lucy Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:19:09 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1505#comment-37668 lovely lessons indeed. i am so delighted you have this opportunity. i also totally understand the bleeding of days together. having just completed my official "day job" last week and following it by a week away, i have no doubt that i will wake up monday morning and think i should head for the bus. i love the idea of rituals...and i hope you will consider blisschick's words re: rest. no doubt you have earned a time to just crash. thank you for the links. i look forward to checking them out. selfishly, i am adoring seeing you more often around the net. :-) is it time for more morning pages?!??!?! lovely lessons indeed. i am so delighted you have this opportunity. i also totally understand the bleeding of days together. having just completed my official “day job” last week and following it by a week away, i have no doubt that i will wake up monday morning and think i should head for the bus. i love the idea of rituals…and i hope you will consider blisschick’s words re: rest. no doubt you have earned a time to just crash.

thank you for the links. i look forward to checking them out. selfishly, i am adoring seeing you more often around the net. :-) is it time for more morning pages?!??!?!

]]> By: Kel http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-37663 Kel Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:49:15 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1505#comment-37663 the image of the empty calendar is a poignant addition to this post being comfortable in that empty space takes time being comfortable without a day-job identity takes more time being comfortable just being is a rarity may you be comfortable i would be interested to know more about your Sabbath practices especially now as everyday may seem the same the image of the empty calendar is a poignant addition to this post
being comfortable in that empty space takes time
being comfortable without a day-job identity takes more time
being comfortable just being is a rarity
may you be comfortable

i would be interested to know more about your Sabbath practices
especially now as everyday may seem the same

]]> By: Liz http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-37651 Liz Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:53:47 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1505#comment-37651 Chickens Chickens

]]> By: Blisschick http://www.anchormast.com/2009/04/24/seven-days-seven-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-37643 Blisschick Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:32:06 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1505#comment-37643 This is good stuff -- especially that first lesson! ;) It seems to me that you need to give yourself some time to melt into a sort of healing and recovery process. Yet, it can get dangerous, this nebulous, no-form approach to our days and weeks. Perhaps a "deadline?" Tell yourself you are simply going to dive into a serious time of healing for x many days or weeks (or even -- gasp! -- months), and just start playing with ideas about structure and purpose all those very serious (ha!) things. Just some ideas. I've been through this. It can be tough but it is beyond rewarding to learn how you really live your time when it belongs to no one else. :) P.S. OF COURSE you are "WRITER!" I hear you ROAR! This is good stuff — especially that first lesson! ;)

It seems to me that you need to give yourself some time to melt into a sort of healing and recovery process.

Yet, it can get dangerous, this nebulous, no-form approach to our days and weeks. Perhaps a “deadline?” Tell yourself you are simply going to dive into a serious time of healing for x many days or weeks (or even — gasp! — months), and just start playing with ideas about structure and purpose all those very serious (ha!) things.

Just some ideas. I’ve been through this. It can be tough but it is beyond rewarding to learn how you really live your time when it belongs to no one else. :)

P.S. OF COURSE you are “WRITER!” I hear you ROAR!

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