This learning curve

Internet ground to a halt last night - too slow.

Battling with statistics.

A blow fly just found its way inside - how?

Dog asleep on son's bed all morning.

Listening to some Glen Campbell - oldies but goodies.

Write travel story, book review, soapbox and portfolio.

Tax and centrelink hassles have dominated - life.

Volunteered at food co-op - cash register - learning curve.

Battling the complacency of a fixed brain - to try different things.

Pushing hard into that learning curve.

Quandaries

Writings, quandaries.

Is my heart really in research?

Key words - undecided ambivalent disenfranchised by distance and online learning

no heart

no discussions

no fun

limited accessibility or incentives

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Pathologizing our Emotions

The Shaking Woman - reminds me a bit of 'Through a glass darkly' by Caroline ? the ABC Broadcaster. Relentless analysis of their own condition/predicament.

Caroline was coming to grips with the prolonged illness & death of her beloved father, all the more stark, as an only child.

Suri the author of the Shaking woman has episodes of shaking she thinks in relation to a grief reaction to her father's death. She examines many hypothesis re: this shaking - mental, emotional and physical and comes to no real answer.

It seems the heart and emotions are hard to pathologize, but we continue to try.

Also have dipped into 'The Psychology of Spirituality' by Larry Culliford - finding the true self.

Part One - Themes & Variations - What comes around comes around.

The author asserts spirituality is about wholeness, this point cannot be overemphasised.

The book discusses faith in children, healthcare and more - just wish I had a bit more time to read it - got from the Flinders Uni library while browsing with my son - now overdue.

Request from local library? ANF?

number 300! Breathe on.

Looked at my site and it said I had made 299 posts - so this must be number 300!

Just finished Breath by Tim Winton.

His characters always seem unfulfilled.

No one is okay with life.

There is the small town mentality that results in angry fathers, discontented youths and women who seem powerless or impotent.

He captures the poverty of language in young men, is poverty in the soul too?

Soul - less, the only time there is respite is in the dance with the waves.

Like this becomes a church of its own.

But a self serving one.

I am not sure the analogy of breath really comes alive in the narrative.

Cross pollination from the surf crushing down on its victims, gasping for breath, the old man's sleep apnoea and the erotic suffocation. The grasping for breath..........for meaning something to someone.

But it is a tale you grudging follow, if not to see where the coming of age will take the reader.

The Latvia connection

Have a huge pile of paperwork - can never seem to get it in order?
Have found the pathway to the online component of my Masters - hooray.
Finally something to work on.
Weekend gallery openings, visit to grandma and follow up on the Latvia connection.