Marginalia

A beautiful and timely reminder from a book I read earlier this year…

Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart by Jon M. Sweeney 📚

The Philadelphia Eagles have an incredible ability to stress me out to a degree that I have to admit is a bit unreasonable given that I’m watching a game. This is supposed to be entertaining yet I mostly just feel stress. I sometimes wish I didn’t care about sports. Go Birds 🦅 🏈

It wasn’t pretty, lots of points were left on the field, and we damn near lost the game, but because of an incredible interception, we got the win. Let’s go Birds! 🦅 🏈

I’m a big fan of the work that Ali Abdaal does and I’m looking forward to rest of the videos in this series.

Began the day this morning reading this beautiful word about love and solidarity:

If you choose solidarity, instead of pulling away from those you once suspected, avoided, vilified, or rejected, you see them as neighbors. You smile. You talk. You try to collaborate for the common good in whatever ways you can. When you disagree, as you must, you do so boldly but also graciously, not burning bridges, not breaking solidarity. They may be your opponents for the moment, but you don’t write them off as enemies.
Brian McLaren

Seeking Love Through Solidarity - CAC Daily Meditations

Spider-Man is ready to go. 🎃

Currently reading: Ordinary Mysticism by Mirabai Starr 📚

You don’t have to enter a monastery to be a mystic. You don’t have to renounce chocolate or forsake pop culture. It is not necessary to take formal vows and beat yourself up when you inevitably fail to uphold them…To be a mystic in our times is not about renunciation; it is about intention. Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred. It’s a matter of purposely looking through the lens of love.

What a game! The Dodgers deserved the win and were clearly the better team. ⚾️

Morning Light

Leading a funeral service later today and reminded of this verse:
“Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning.”
‭‭Psalm 30.5

I sort of forgot that I had this blog until I was charged the annual fee this week. Feeling inspired to come back and use it since I’ve already paid for it, just trying to figure out how I’d like to use it. I’ve completely exited all other forms of social media so it feels strange to return.

Sacred Space

The cost of so much connection and information has been the deterioration of our capacity for attention and reflection. And it is the quality of our attention and reflection that matters most.

The Great Delusion Behind Twitter

Took my children to see a house near us decorated for Christmas in a way that makes Clark Griswold look restrained. Merry Christmas.

Enjoying watching USA V. NED and have been impressed by the USA so far but when the cross the ball into the box they need to have someone there to make the shot. Unfortunately NED has demontrated twice how it’s done. ⚽️

It seems that in our pursuit of happiness, we’re taking focus off of what could be meaningful. But it’s in the pursuit of what is meaningful that happiness seems most likely to appear. As Viktor Frankl put it, “Happiness cannot be pursued, it can only ensue.”

Ryder Carroll

I have enjoyed the safety net of having Microblogvember to inspire me to post regularly and I’m hoping to continue posting regularly after it’s over (though I’m not sure that it will be daily).

Didn’t know how I would use the word fish in a post today and then I had to save a work colleague from falling victim to a phishing scam. I know it’s spelled differently but it’s the best I got.

I’m normally off on Monday but I’m starting a new trend today and moving my day off to Friday. Hoping for a good start to the week.

I always find that my motivation takes a nosedive on Sunday afternoons but unfortunately my day is not done till 6 today so I’ve got to find a way to focus again.