Only one word? Boring, strange, weird. Pick one!
Tag: dailyprompt
sewing
Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on.
Glad you asked! I am learning to sew. It is completely out of my comfort zone. I sewed my first piece yesterday! You like?
ban?
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
To be honest, I do not like the idea of banning things. There are words I wish I did not use – “unique” or “kafkaesque”. But banning seems a little kafkaesque.
What would the punishment be? “Word goal”?
[As an aside, I like the word “kafkaesque” but it makes me sound very “unique”.]
What do words really do? Is there any meaning behind them? Or only that which we assign them within our social context?
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
Certainty
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
The biggest challenge is “where to from here?”. I have hit a sweet spot when it comes to my daily life – good rhythm, right interaction. I think I have found a paradigm for me in history and there is peace.
But there is never certainty. The very fact that I look for control is part of the current struggle. The desire for external consultation is the struggle.
To put it a different way: what does it mean for me that my relationship with Jesus is absolute?
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
me
What do you complain about the most?
People who know me, know I do not like “me”. I can never recall a time when I did. Everything about me upsets me: my physical awkwardness, my silly voice, my overwhelming and overbearing personality, my constant chatter about nothingness. So I complain about me to me and others.
But apart from that? The weather.
eye-glasses
… eyeglasses. I am so blessed to have reading glasses. I struggle without them. Perhaps I could do without other major inventions – the internet, air conditioning, computers, etc. – but I could not survive without being able to read.
be me
I do not use “to-do lists”. I have never used them. But the one item I know will never get done is “be me”. Or maybe, “stop wearing masks”. I am unsure why but I know I hide and censor “me”. Perhaps life has taught me to be more like everyone else? Maybe life has taught me that no one will like “me”? So masks it is – pretending and play-acting something that I am not.
cat!
My first computer was a Dick Smith’s Cat. I started with a tape drive but later got a floppy disk drive – the big one. It was a cool computer to start with and it taught me lots about computing. It had Basic installed so I learned to program. And, if I remember right, I wrote a “V” game with sound.
leave
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?
Leave my current context! I know I should, I have been told by people I trust that I need to, and my heart says that this is no longer home. But it is so difficult for me to even think about it.
I say that I will when someone else acts. But it should be me. I have outstayed my welcome and really need to move on.
But …
read and dance
I want to say, sleep. But that is a little boring and, in my case, predictable.
I read Kafka’s The Castle – that was super fun. It made me laugh, wonder, and cry. It was an escape into a different world that is a lot like my world. Also I watched Veep – that always makes me laugh. Especially when Gary goes to a vegan dinner and asks how many beans are in the soup. And it is good for my anxiety as I have watched it so often.
Play?! I danced to very loud techno, with my headphones on so no one could hear, in my dark room so no one could see, and with my eyes closed so I could feel the beat.
this solitary life 