Category — Microblog Mondays

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Whoa.

So I was surfing the web (remember ye olden days when we jumped from link to link vs. got spoon-fed content from our Facebook feed?) and somehow landed on this 2014 piece about taking a life audit.  I LOVE it.

You take 100 post-it notes and write down 100 wishes/life goals in an hour, stopping when the timer goes off.  If you only have 40 wishes/goals, that’s fine.  The more wishes/goals, the more you actually have to do.  So it may be more manageable to NOT get to 100.

Then you group them and get a birds-eye view of what types of things matter to you.  And then you finally prioritize by time.  And then start to do your first five activities.  It’s actually more complicated than that, and it would probably help if you read the whole thing.

But riffing off this idea, what was the first idea (wish/goal) that popped into your brain as you read this?  In other words, what would go on your first post-it note?

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In the same vein as learning about the history of lines, Atlas Obscura had a brilliant piece on the concept of a moment.  It begins by asking the length of a moment, since a moment could be several months (the #metoo movement marks a moment in time) or a few seconds (“wait a moment”).

Moment was first defined at 1/4oth of an hour (or about 90 seconds), but clearly that’s not how the word is used now.  But more interesting, do YOU define a moment as a short or long period of time?  If I said a vague sentence like: “Preparing the thing you’re about to see took a moment,” would you think that it took me a few seconds or a few minutes or a half hour without having any further context?  Or do we only know the length of the moment when we have the context?

I usually think of a moment as almost instantaneous, a period of time so brief that it doesn’t warrant measuring.  But… clearly that isn’t the case.

So what does a moment mean to you?

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I just read about the “sociocultural history of the line,” a topic that doesn’t sound very interesting but turns out to be fascinating.

Did you know that the first historical recording of people using a line was in 1837?  Before that you just gathered around the counter and joined the push to be served.  I would have never gotten bread.  First of all, I’m usually too short to be seen over a counter.  Beyond that, I would have given up in about three seconds.  I have a weak will to push into crowds.

The rest of the article is about how we behave in line and our willingness to participate in the construction.  Read it — I promise you will think about it the next time you’re in a long line at the grocery store.

Which would you rather do — queue up or join a free-for-all at the counter?

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I’ve been thinking a lot about meditation lately.  I downloaded 10% Happier while it was on sale, though I haven’t started reading it.  I downloaded two apps: Calm and Breathe.  And then I just… stopped.

I mean, I think about meditation all the time.  But I haven’t started it yet.

My interest in meditation was piqued by a review of another book, especially this description of meditation: “[it] is not like other goal-oriented tasks. Rather, it is about getting away from the self.”  Who wouldn’t like to take a small break from themselves every once in a while?  But then I continued reading the article and it all got very muddy inside my mind.  I don’t want that kind of break from myself.

Do you meditate regularly?

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We don’t do anything for Valentine’s Day anymore.  Josh and I have never celebrated it.  (We also don’t celebrate Tu B’Av, which is sort of the Jewish version of Valentine’s Day.)

When the kids were little, I was the class mum, so I threw the school party.  They filled out Valentine’s cards for all of their classmates, ate candy, and played games.  But now that they’re in middle school, we don’t have that ritual.

I don’t feel sad about it, and I certainly don’t want to go out Wednesday night.  But I do feel like I need to make heart-shaped pancakes or something of that ilk.

What is the most low-key way to mark Valentine’s Day without really doing anything for Valentine’s Day?

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