wisdom: dumbledore

Are money and life the two biggest human desires? I'd say control and power go up there as well, maybe it's all connected like a web of wishes and demons.

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Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone is having a lovely day.

This is my favorite christmas songs of the year, enjoy!

comics

Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday we get a newspaper. I peruse the actual pages, just to make it look like I don't subscribe just for one reason: the comics. I grew up reading them daily and I can't shake my love for newspaper comics. But, I'm not going to lie, they rarely make me chuckle out loud. I've noticed that comics are becoming more and more popular online and those I do read almost daily. The Oatmeal and xkcd are a few of my favorites, as well as Crimes Against Hugh's Manatees. 

best books I've read this year

Wild by Cheryl Strayed 

Have you read any good books this year? Here are a few that I've devoured this past year. I highly recommend them each for very different reasons and I'm always looking for new suggestions! 

you know you're ready

Ready for the weekend! 

wisdom: dumbledore

Dumbledore was so wise.

I adore words. One of my favorite being 'pastiche'. Do you have a favorite word? If not, you should consider getting one. It makes for quirky and interesting conversation starters (or enders, if you aren't around other language lovers).

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niche

A few years ago, I watched a documentary on ferret owners. And then I watched one on synchronized swimming competitions. I've since seen shows about storage containers, I've read crazy knitting blogs and I've visited hobby shops and bike shops and all sorts of strange and specifics shops and here's what I have concluded, if you haven't found your niche, your little enclave of similar minded people all driven toward the same specific way to spend their free time, then you aren't trying hard enough.

Expertise

This year I have been eagerly trying to find new things to learn, new ways to entertain myself at home mostly and new ways to be creative. I really wanted to discover, or uncover, a secret natural ability within me. Something I was good at, something I could create and hopefully, something I could make and give to others. 

Specifics

Sometimes I find that I've limited myself with my own to-do lists. Does that ever happen to you? I'm a planner, it seems to be my default position, a position where I feel most at ease and yet also most constricted. Go figure.