Can you switch it off? yes, you can.

I love modern technology. I love the way it enables me to communicate with my family and friends back home in Israel without having to wait for letters to travel back and forth. I love the way it has enabled me to get to know people from other countries and to build cross-cultural friendships. I [...]

Sabbath

Taking a day (or a chunk of time) off and resting means, amongst other things, that I acknowledge it’s not up to me to keep the world going.

Finding stuff I’d lost

It’s over two years since I finished the counselling course and I’m still finding stuff that I’d lost back then. I had no idea what that course would cost me, and am still finding out.

Note to Self

Just because someone has asked me a question,
it doesn’t mean I have to engage with it.

And it most definitely doesn’t mean I have to engage with it right now.

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This kind of relates to the Someone Is Wrong on the Internet syndrome – I’ve been having to learn

Sometimes I miss typewriters

Those clunky old things, that made so much noise, and couldn’t do anything else apart from getting text onto paper. There’s a lot to be said for a single-function tool – yes, I love the computer and all the stuff it enables me to do, but its multitasking abilities make it so much harder to [...]

Today I did!

I joke a lot about being a procrastinator, but it is a serious battle and I’m therefore pausing to pat myself on the back: today I did something that I’ve never done before – I posted all my seasonal greeting cards in time for the second class post deadline. It’s always tended to be a last minute job, I’ve always needed to use first class stamps because of posting so late, and here I am on 16th December able to say it’s done!

Husband was very impressed, and I found myself explaining to him how it worked: I was so not wanting to do it, that I did it just so that I could get this task out of the way, so that I could put it behind me.

But hearing myself say that, I recognise that this is something I’ve never said before in my whole life. I’ve always

I’ve had a very productive day – I’ve rested

How do you define “productive”? The question just came up in a conversation online, and I thought: we tend to look at rest and recreation as unproductive time but it isn’t really, it produces something very important – it produces an ability within us to do the other stuff that we do, the stuff that [...]