Parlant a l'Ether

I got my haircut last week, and I told my hairdresser about my trip to Japan coming up in March. Have I written about that here? I’m going to Japan in March to study Japanese approaches to mental health. I’ll be staying at a Zen Buddhist monastery in Kyoto. So, I told my hairdresser about …

It’s not so much a post-Xmas dip as much as it’s my fourth week off, I’m bored out of my mind, and the stress of the New Year starting is more than I can handle, so I’m really struggling with anxiety and depression right now, and it’s not helped by my complete lack of funds, …

Tom and I had not planned to “do” Thanksgiving this year. That lasted until Tuesday of this week, when I felt compelled to buy a turkey and various other fixings for a real Thanksgiving Dinner. So, I spent most of the day on Thanksgiving doing what I do every year: making a metric tonne of …

Week four of school and I’m chuggin’ along. Haven’t done nearly a 1/4 of the reading, but I’m keeping up with the concepts really well. I think it’s my previous knowledge plus my ability to skim in an academic manner. And the amount of writing at this point is kind of… underwhelming? I’m used to …