I know, I know. #NaBloPo month #fail. I get it. I'll give you two reasons, either of which is reasonably legitimate.
1. I went back on clinical service and went into self-preservation mode. By the time I was ready for bed every night, blogging simply wasn't a priority. This gets back to the self-nourishment in November theme that began the month and I have no regrets about taking the last 6 days off (I think it's been 6).
2. Blogger has been, in the interest of putting it nicely, persnickety for me lately. I've had lots of trouble with saving posts and publishing them. The upshot of this is that I'm seriously looking at a conversion to WordPress. If I do I promise to leave a forwarding address here. I'm trying to decide by the end of the month, which means in the next 3 hours.
But we all still deserve this week's #TGI post, right? It's good for the soul, and the gratitude practice really is the basis for joy. The longer I live, the more I realize that Brene Brown is right on with her research findings.
Today I am trusting that all of this late Fall/ early Winter Vata energy that is challenging so many people in my life (me included!) will start to settle down soon. I felt it most with the 70-ish mile per hour wind gusts last weekend, but things still feel stirred up and a little hectic. Here's hoping that as we move deep into the darkness of winter that it will become a time for rooting and grounding and stability.
Today I am grateful for, as I put it on Thanksgiving, the fact that I am at a point in my life that I can do what I want when I want how I want. The corollary to that is that I am at a point in life where my value is not determined by anyone else's opinion of me. Finally. That's taken a damn long time. It doesn't mean that I don't like positive reinforcement- we all do, right?- but it does mean that I haven't got room for unkindness, particularly when it's someone questioning my choices. They're my choices, and I'm pretty happy with them, thanks for not asking.
Today I am inspired by this Brain Scoop vlog. No, I am not willing to celebrate the sexism that Emily Graslie is talking about because it's a frustration I've felt more than once in my life. What I am willing to celebrate is how candidly and wisely she discusses the issue. I also love that her official job title is Chief Curiosity Correspondent for the Field Museum. A title like that makes aspiring to Vice Chair of Education and Professionalism seem almost trite. Re: Emily's vlog post- I'm working on a similar one on women in medicine and started crowdsourcing comments on Twitter today. I promise to share the link to the AWS blog when it goes live. Yep, here I go again stirring the gender equity pot. I'll keep stirring it until there's no need for stirring.
Now listening: Patty Griffin "I don't ever give up"
Labels: NaBloPoMo, TGIF