spiritual prescription

[fflo]

I have just realized I need to exhaust myself physically.

I've been exercising myself to the limits emotionally, and wearing myself out with coffee and not much sleep, and even working the noggin to the point of rubbery brains now & then. But it's been a fortnight since I went & used up the better part of the energy of my plain ol' pure muscles, bloodstream, lungs.

One of the lessons of this stage of my life has been how very good for me that occasional practice can be.

When life is so clearly instructive about something, why do we sometimes have such a hard time learning the lesson?

Comments

colloquialisation

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i think that you should, for the purposes of authenticity, make the tagline into 'ладна вода, as in 'ladna voda, because that's how it would be pronounced by most easy speakers of the language comfortable with the phrase. the h's are very often silenced, and in most cases the silences are a measure of colloquialism and ease.

Re: colloquialisation

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Will do! I decided to take down Elizabeth's insight, too. I dunno. Something like a gesture toward not accepting the inevitability of cruelty too readily or willingly. Since, temperamentally, I don't. Or maybe it's more like not inviting it. I don't know.

Today (Sunday) has been a bit of a non-starter for me. May be as simple as not having had coffee, though I hate to admit it. Am I so emotionally tied to that stuff?

I wonder whether I'm a train wreck waiting to happen. An engineerless locomotive just now realizing fully how there's no one at the controls, and equating that with imminent derailment. Or somethin'. To stick with the train metaphor, and perhaps to pick up something from the flick last night.

Best thing about seeing that movie in the theater was being in that crowd. Where the laughs fell, and how big they were & of what sort, and when the "aw"s came out and how oddly readily in places.

Re: colloquialisation

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

it sounds like one of those days when it's worth pulling out the note-to-self which reminds one that:

1. sundays are the most hideous days of any week, disgusting in their faux liberty and terrifying in the ominous threat of being just once removed from the reviled monday, the shadows of which spill over into one's supposedly "free" day; those religious people had it right (discipline, i tell you!) to ban themselves from doing anything on sunday, at the threat of death!

2. if a day seems particularly bad, it probably isn't! especially if there is no reason for it. chemistry is the science we should all study and how few drops of chemicals we produce ourselves make us out to be people we don't know and the world to be the place we'd never seen before. worse yet, we had seen it and were deceived as to what it was really about! all so true! [not]

if you'd like me to distract you from you, and from me, i'd be happy to do it. to remind you what the note said, or to write a new one for you!

yes, the movie was better with the audience. it was a lesson on the in jokes i didn't catch.

Re: colloquialisation

[fflo.livejournal.com]

i have a feeling i'm going to like what you said about chemistry very much, once i figure out (or am told) what you're saying! haw

i would indeed like you to distract me from me. will you?

want to help me in a small shopping mission? i shall call you in a few minutes.

Re: colloquialisation

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i shall gladly. i am going to see a house i might live in next fall, but that shouldn't take too long.