Category — Microblog Mondays

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Today my 12th blogoversary intersects with the 200th #Microblog Monday.  I have been writing this blog for 12 years.  12 years!  200 of those posts have been Microblog Monday.  The other several thousand (because I write on average 5 posts per week, 52 weeks per year) have been random mishmash from my clotty uterus to the twins to my extreme love of quokkas to bothering Josh with my feelings at 11 pm.

About 1/4th of my life has been spent writing this site.  Isn’t that mind-blowing?  A quarter of my life.

I have no great wisdom to impart except write.  Keep at it.  The way you amass 12 years is showing up for 12 years.

Thank you for being here.

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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“The instinct to gossip has been with us ever since there were more human beings than Adam and Eve. Once you went beyond the first two, there was gossip.”

I normally love gossip — at least in the form of People magazine — though I’ve gotten more sensitive to it in this past year.  There’s something about unnamed sources coupled with the age of manipulated news that sours me even to the most innocuous stories.  But it is so hard to tear myself away from celebrity stories.  Plus… it’s sort of sociology if you look at it the same way as this WashPo article:

Lui, 44, is a gossip evangelist. She believes in its value and its power: As a communication tool, a collective finger on the pulse of our culture, a means of sussing out our morals, our insecurities, our aspirations, our fears. She’s part investigative reporter, part breaking-news ethicist, part social anthropologist.

What do you think our gossip scene is saying about us as a people right now?

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“Time is a fascinating topic because it touches our deepest emotions. Time opens up life and takes everything away.”  And it doesn’t even exist according to physicist Carlo Rovelli who said that quote.

The whole article will blow your mind, especially when he starts pointing out how milliseconds pass between words spoken and words heard.  Or how we’re not experiencing the same minute right now if you’re not living in the Eastern Time Zone.  Or how “on a mountaintop, time passes faster than at sea level. Similarly, the hands of a clock on the floor will move slightly slower than the hands of a clock on a tabletop.”

So why do I allow this thing — time — to control my life if it’s this flimsy and unformed?

Do you feel anxious about time, too?

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The New York Times recently had a piece about surviving your 40s.  My 40s have been interesting; something initially dreaded and now embraced.  I am sure I will also be dragged kicking and screaming into 50, but I am happy to be a few days into being 44, not least of which because the number is the same backwards as forwards.

The article asks: “What exactly is this not-young age? I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they’ll regret things that they haven’t done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.”

It’s an interesting idea to be living the decade you’ll most want to return to live again.  It makes you more mindful to slow down and drink in the moments because they are apparently as good as it gets.

Mostly, I like the essay for these lines: “What is a grown-up anyway? Do they really exist? If so, what exactly do they know? Will my mind ever catch up with my face?”

What is a grown-up?  And are you one?

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We ran to the beach this weekend to celebrate my birthday early, so I grabbed a new book to read on the sand.  I picked up the book — The Last Policeman — because the cover looked interesting and immediately got sucked into the writing style and plotline.  It’s a trilogy, which made it even more appealing — there were two more books after this one that I knew would be enjoyable, too.

I started reading and realized that it was set in New England.  I used to live in New England, so I flipped to the acknowledgements page to see if we knew anyone in common.  I saw that he thanked an old friend from high school — someone I knew from Maryland, not Massachusetts.  Then I flipped to the front of the book and saw that he had dedicated it to the same friend.  Some quick Googling and I discovered that the author was my old friend’s brother!

So one book not only provided me with hours of entertainment at the beach, but it connected me to my old friend via Facebook.  See; books really do bring people together.

Have you ever made a connection to another person over a book?

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