I. Unfazed Fat
I found an animal-being that is me!
Snorlax from Pokemon, whose ability is Unfazed Fat. (Found the card at work.)
Snorlax is sleeping. Look, how happy!
I am also sleeping.
Well, not right now, but a lot. I just get tired of being conscious...
There's SO MUCH coming in all the time.
And I don't necessarily want to shut-down my brain by watching media, or even by reading (I keep being disappointed in the books I start...).
Sleep seems an ideal option. I process a lot that way, or I just get a break.
As for "unfazed fat", my body seems to have adjusted to not-eating processed sugars after three months and seems happy to rest at a 10-lbs-weight loss.
I'm still up 10+ lbs from when I walked Camino in 2011, and that's fine. We are unfazed. :)
It's weird that giving up sugar wasn't all that hard, after a lifetime of it being impossible––impossible!––to do.
Snorlax doesn't change by Force of Will...
Snorlax sleeps her way into the Right Thing at the Right Time.
Snorlax makes the bed when she wakes up though.
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II. Make Your Bed
I do make my bed.
Jordan Peterson says to!
And I agree. Start with your heart (and your stuff), and work outward.
This article on Big Think compares JP's advice to make your bed, etc. to the underlying Shinto concepts in Marie Kondo's teachings.
Even if Peterson said it on a rant on Joe Rogan, this is a good perspective:
“If you can’t even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?
My
sense is that if you want to change the world, you start with yourself
and work outward because you build your competence that way.
I don’t
know how you can go out and protest the structure of the entire economic
system if you can’t keep your room organized.”
I'd sent the Rowan Williams review of JP's book to Marz, and she sent this meme back, saying, He had at least one good idea.
Come on, folks--let’s check our facts.
Mariann Edgar Budde is a hero for publicly calling on Trump to show mercy, but this, below, circulating on FB (bink sent it to me) is inaccurate and takes credit away from the role of another ally hero, Bishop Gene Robinson-- the first openly gay man elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
Yes, Budde supported and was part of it, but Shepard's final interment was the result of his parents' friendship with Robinson. (And also, Matthew Shephard loved church! Who would have guessed.)
"Shepard's funeral in 1998 was met with noisy protests by anti-gay militants.
The decision to seek his interment at Washington National Cathedral came as a result of the Shepards' friendship with Bishop Robinson.
Robinson contacted the cathedral dean, the Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, and Washington's Episcopal bishop, Budde, both of whom readily agreed to the placement of Shepard's ashes in the cathedral crypt.
"'There will be young people from all across the country, having tours here and being educated here,' Bishop Budde said.
'When they pass by, they will see a plaque in his honor. They will see that this is a church that has learned from the example of violence that we need to stand and be counted as among those who work for justice and the full embrace of all God's children.'"
––"'You Are Safe Now': Matthew Shepard Laid To Rest At National Cathedral", NPR, October 26, 2018.
I figure we're all so starved for someone in power to stand up to Trump. And for the Church to DO ITS JOB:
be a proponent of love and mercy and justice.
The Church too needs to clean its house.
Let's go!
Your earlier post about Bishop Budde alerted me that I needed to send her a thank you note, which I have now done. I wasn't aware of the Matthew Shephard/National Cathedral connection - my dad loved to take out of town visitors to National Cathedral so I was there off and on until his death, first as a passenger and later as his chauffeur. It's great to learn new things about a familiar place - clearly I need to plan another visit for when it warms up.
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I want to go to Washington DC to see paintings my toys have re-created—I could go to the cathedral too—never been!
DeleteCECI: what did you say? What card did you send?
DeleteI found a collage card from a trip to Guatemala and thanked her for being a light in the darkness......nothing eloquent but heartfelt anyway. The art museums here are good and mostly free. Summer weather is hideous (and of course right now is no treat either).
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Aw, that sounds pretty eloquent—nice!
DeleteYay for National museums
I suppose i would make my bed- for a "cause" but otherwise I learned long ago that the sheets like the air, and the comforter likes the floor. When I had cats they like the lumps of softness, snooze for hours. I generally make my bed before I get into it. Also I love messes- art and art supplies in piles and stacks. When everything is neat and tidy it paralyzes me. Probably a carry over from childhood.
ReplyDeleteAny mention of Matthew sends me into a tail spin- how many times can a heart shatter?
Oh, yes, Linda Sue – – of course we don’t have to make our beds! It’s about being able to take care of what we *want* to take care of—like you setting up a studio work space!
DeleteI think Peterson’s point was before we go telling others how to improve, we might look to our own houses/selves.
And since he’s especially talking to young men, I think that’s a much-needed message
PS. Yes, Shepard—I imagine you know well the Western landscape he died in…
DeleteI do know that landscape well , harsh, wild , mean.
Delete...A punch to the solar plexus
DeleteIt was brilliant to hear the message of Jesus. Such a contrast to everything that smirky goon says.
ReplyDeleteHi, Liz--It was brilliant, wasn't it? Shouldn't be controversial to speak up for mercy.
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