“The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”

...Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

Me, today:

Though rather hoping the plane may be a bit more adequate - but you never can tell with low cost charter flights.

Off to Switzerland.

Will ski.

Just like that (Not!)


Be prepared for wretched iPad blogging for the next week.WHY WHY WHY won't it format properly?

Or maybe there's a computer in the chalet?

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal...

While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."

Herodotus. My Hero(dotus)

Here's what I've found to use when I choose to beat myself up:

Very convenient. Hands-free.

You see, I DIDN'T finish all my work yesterday. Not from lack of trying. I just didn't get it done. So yet again, here I am on a Sunday. Outside, the sun's shining. Inside, I'm not.

Resentful? Moi?

(Actually, hardly at all.)

I'm really, almost, very nearly, enticingly close to being THERE.

And when I've finished - what celebrations there will be! What a holiday!

It's hard to enjoy a holiday when you have to ask yourself 'A holiday from WHAT?'

That's one problem I don't have.

Day 11 Update
Zero and frustration