Comments on: No excuses http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/ 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: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42418 Tess Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:27:04 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42418 Lucy, I'm big on diversity! Claire, I like your phrase "apprenticeship to life..." Lucy, I’m big on diversity!
Claire, I like your phrase “apprenticeship to life…”

]]> By: claire http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42401 claire Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:03:10 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42401 Thank you for allowing me to walk along your morning thoughts to end up at your altar. I can relate to your secateurs. Spending time in the garden is usually a blessed moment when it nurtures me as I nurture it. There is an apprenticeship to life after a job; I found it took me a while to wean myself from the excitement of work. But my time evolved into something else, which I now truly love. Thanks again, Tess. Thank you for allowing me to walk along your morning thoughts to end up at your altar.
I can relate to your secateurs. Spending time in the garden is usually a blessed moment when it nurtures me as I nurture it.
There is an apprenticeship to life after a job; I found it took me a while to wean myself from the excitement of work. But my time evolved into something else, which I now truly love.
Thanks again, Tess.

]]> By: lucy http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42383 lucy Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:56:47 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42383 so, buffy is yet another (guilty) pleasure that can be attributed to your influence along with richard rohr and leonard cohen. :-) a nicely diverse list, i do believe. also, i have very effectively used the word "why" in therapy sessions when someone is trying to convince me they HAVE TO do something. it is very effective to use with ourselves too...as in why do i have to go to work (or get out of bed) today? another great question is "what's the worst that could happen if i do or don't do/say it?" so, buffy is yet another (guilty) pleasure that can be attributed to your influence along with richard rohr and leonard cohen. :-) a nicely diverse list, i do believe. also, i have very effectively used the word “why” in therapy sessions when someone is trying to convince me they HAVE TO do something. it is very effective to use with ourselves too…as in why do i have to go to work (or get out of bed) today? another great question is “what’s the worst that could happen if i do or don’t do/say it?”

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42382 Tess Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:28:32 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42382 @Sally: wow, thank you, both for the kind words and the award. Will have a think on this before passing it on. How exciting! @Lucy: thank you, and bring on those juvenile thoughts, they're great! I think the expression you use is American. I've heard it on TV shows (Xander uses it in Buffy - how sad it is that I can quote this?). But I was certainly very prone to using "Why?". That's another good way of being the boss of you. In fact I'm not sure I use it often enough now... @Sally: wow, thank you, both for the kind words and the award. Will have a think on this before passing it on. How exciting!
@Lucy: thank you, and bring on those juvenile thoughts, they’re great! I think the expression you use is American. I’ve heard it on TV shows (Xander uses it in Buffy – how sad it is that I can quote this?). But I was certainly very prone to using “Why?”. That’s another good way of being the boss of you. In fact I’m not sure I use it often enough now…

]]> By: lucy http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42372 lucy Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:24:25 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42372 oh, i just had one of those juvenile thoughts which i am prone to do. :-) did you ever as a kid say to anyone "you're not the boss of me!" ? guess i am the only real boss of me, huh? oh, i just had one of those juvenile thoughts which i am prone to do. :-) did you ever as a kid say to anyone “you’re not the boss of me!” ? guess i am the only real boss of me, huh?

]]> By: lucy http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42371 lucy Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:22:38 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42371 tess--i love this post and could feel the movement within you as i followed your words. the photo is stunning and i am so glad you shared your altar with us today. i found many years ago that i do not do well following other people's schedules. it seems a bit strange because i do like order and some form or routine. hmmm. a little time might work well processing there. last week i had intentionally kept friday clear of commitments so i could work at home. my body (and soul) had other intentions for the day and needed some serious tending, so i put aside my self-imposed work schedule and lingered in listening to myself. as things go, it was just what i needed to do and am so glad i told "my boss" i couldn't come in. :-) tess–i love this post and could feel the movement within you as i followed your words. the photo is stunning and i am so glad you shared your altar with us today.

i found many years ago that i do not do well following other people’s schedules. it seems a bit strange because i do like order and some form or routine. hmmm. a little time might work well processing there. last week i had intentionally kept friday clear of commitments so i could work at home. my body (and soul) had other intentions for the day and needed some serious tending, so i put aside my self-imposed work schedule and lingered in listening to myself. as things go, it was just what i needed to do and am so glad i told “my boss” i couldn’t come in. :-)

]]> By: Sally http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42365 Sally Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:10:05 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42365 Hi Tess, What you say is so true of many of the compelling distractions in our modern world - becoming embroiled in them can so easily prevent us from listening for cues. Another beautiful post and one of the reasons why I'm passing on......The Kreativ Blogger Award to you. To read more on this, see here: http://www.sallylever.co.uk/2009/09/08/kreativ-blogger-award/ Sally x Hi Tess,
What you say is so true of many of the compelling distractions in our modern world – becoming embroiled in them can so easily prevent us from listening for cues. Another beautiful post and one of the reasons why I’m passing on……The Kreativ Blogger Award to you. To read more on this, see here:

http://www.sallylever.co.uk/2009/09/08/kreativ-blogger-award/

Sally x

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42358 Tess Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:38:31 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42358 @Abbey: "the necessary face", yes that's it exactly. @Elaine: thank you, and have a wonderful vacation - we look forward to pictures! @kigen: Ah, well this helps me also because I'd always assumed that your pruning shears were in fact what we call shears, which are a different thing. And I love the name Pyrocantha for a cat - a big marmalade cat! @Abbey: “the necessary face”, yes that’s it exactly.
@Elaine: thank you, and have a wonderful vacation – we look forward to pictures!
@kigen: Ah, well this helps me also because I’d always assumed that your pruning shears were in fact what we call shears, which are a different thing. And I love the name Pyrocantha for a cat – a big marmalade cat!

]]> By: kigen http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42350 kigen Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:41:40 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42350 I am an Anglophile which accounts for some of my fascination with your blog. This post sent me out on a couple of word hunts. I had to look up "secateurs," a British term apparently for pruning shears. I always pronounced it "pyrocnathus," which was wrong and I was delighted to learn via Google that the Latin name for Firethorn should be pronounced like a woman's name, or maybe an exquisite appellation for a cat, that is, Pyrocantha! Squinting closely at your altar, there it was in all its lustrous red glory! Tess! I am an Anglophile which accounts for some of my fascination with your blog. This post sent me out on a couple of word hunts. I had to look up “secateurs,” a British term apparently for pruning shears. I always pronounced it “pyrocnathus,” which was wrong and I was delighted to learn via Google that the Latin name for Firethorn should be pronounced like a woman’s name, or maybe an exquisite appellation for a cat, that is, Pyrocantha! Squinting closely at your altar, there it was in all its lustrous red glory! Tess!

]]> By: Elaine http://www.anchormast.com/2009/09/07/no-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-42348 Elaine Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:22:51 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1846#comment-42348 Beautiful photo and meditation, Tess. I'm just now off to my Mom's place where I'll be offline for the next day but I'm copying and pasting this post to my text editor so I can re-read and think about it this evening. Perfect timing as I officially start vacation tomorrow. No excuses -- I definitely have time to listen and read. ee Beautiful photo and meditation, Tess. I’m just now off to my Mom’s place where I’ll be offline for the next day but I’m copying and pasting this post to my text editor so I can re-read and think about it this evening.

Perfect timing as I officially start vacation tomorrow. No excuses — I definitely have time to listen and read.

ee

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