On courage

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
-Earl Wilson


Waiting. That's what Advent is all about- waiting for peace and joy, and courage.

I'm losing patience in my waiting, and pray constantly for the patience to make it through the days at work before I can see my loved one's in CT. Only a couple days away now!

Only one more day of After School Program before a week's break. Yay!

In closing my short ramblings, I pray that anyone reading this will experience the peace and joy of the season.

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown of the nest."- Pema Chodron

"Look at life as an energy economy game. Each day, ask yourself, Are my energy expenditures (actions, reactions, thoughts, and feelings) productive or nonproductive? During the course of my day, have I accumulated more stress or more peace?"- Doc Childre and Howard Martin


Once again I find myself at this point where I'm stressed out and yearning to be calm amidst the chaos of my job. Everything else is really going well (except that I'm starting to get sick again- but I think that being stressed out is one reason for that). I'm so thankful for the wonderful people in my life. My housemates/community members being on the top of that list right now. Living "in community" defintely helps a lot in getting through the rough stuff. Just being able to go home and hang around in the kitchen, dining room, and living room - to joke and dance and eat and knit together-- those are the moments that make the others more bearable.
I've also thinking about how much community living is a good model for what family life should be like.

well, gotta get back to work again. I'll try to update more soon.