#9.21 - Routine

-
My routine is wake up, get the coffee made, and while Im doing that, to check facebook. That should take no longer than fifteen minutes. Then all the writing for the day. After that, run. Then get ready for school. Breakfast, birdfood, put any laundry on. School. After that, lunch. Then Forest School. any Forest School things, and Admin. Then housework. Dinner and the evening school prep followed by drawing, art, piano, whatever BEFORE I settle into bed to read. The book I am reading is Herod the Great. It is so well written. Written in a way books are no longer written. Beautiful. You can feel how precious the words are. Like the author still believed he was doing something magical and beautiful with the words. And that he had been to these places when travelling was still a difficult thing to do. The book is a distillation the way nothing is a distillation anymore. Now all these things are cheap. Readily available.

Went for a walk with Zoe yesterday. I must now think of the things I need to do for school. Which subject will I do first. I was thinking of Banking. Banking would be a good subject. Or even the Crusades. I think I'll do the Crusades and Banking. And then Business Maths for Maths. That will be a nice component. A nice thing joined up together. That makes sense now. So I'll do that. Instead of the body BECAUSE it is nightmare with the body doing it online. The Crusades at least there are lots of good videos and it is an interesting and engaging time. AND it falls out of Christianity nicely. I can do that and it can lead to Eleanor of Acquitaine and Joan of Arc. 

After despairing that I will now forever be a fatty, I can feel my body slowly being nursed back to health by the running. I am developing a double chin, but there is nothing I can do about that. I'm lucky that I have stayed looking so young for so long, most people haven't had my innings. So I'll take that. The running and the stretching are just gonna have to be done for the sake of running and stretching.

Today I woke up as well with three thoughts - Grace, Gratitude and Appreciation. Instead of moaning and groaning I need to wake up and fake it till I make it in the positive thinking department. That is all. It is what I have to do. 

Ah an entire year. It has been a great start post winter solstice. I should be happy about that.

Right. Where am I now?

OK, I need to write now. Just keep writing, even if I don't believe it. I need to just keep at it because if I stop I will be in the EXACT place I was next time this year. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Geylang sepaku Geylang

-
Image
Geylang Serai is the place i feel most at home in Singapore. Possibly because a vast majority of the population are still Singaporean and i speak the language they speak there - Malay. Also, it hasn't changed that much. OK, it has, but i'd like to think it hasn't. We ate at the new market there which used to be a little better than an open sewer. But it was our open sewer and we loved it. Geylang was heaving with people getting ready for Ramadan. On the table we have sup kambing, otak-otak, nasi padang and rojak. Drinkswise we have lime juice, Kickapoo and teh. It is hot - really hot. We are all pespiring and we can feel our clothes stick to our skin and bellies and thighs. Our hair is continuously in our faces, dripping and sticking too. The only thing that brings relief is a soak in the pool or a shower and an airconditioned room. No wonder when the boys came back, the first thing they said was, ah, it's great to be back in th cool weather again!. Singaporeans love th...
Read more

19.3.26 - 74 - Eulogy: What will survive of us is love

-
Image
I wrote and read this for Pa at the service. It was in long hand, but I have it here typed out now. It is peppered with verses from the New Testament, because I was asked by the priest to refer to Jesus occasionally, so I made that concession. Big shout out to Ben and the Christian Community whom I spent many a delighted evening reading and discussing the Bible during Bible study class. =========================== Thank you everybody for coming here to honour the life of husband, father and legend which is Eric Sim Chin Seng. Pa crossed over on the 16th of March at 7.30 am. He went peacefully and gently. He breathed his way slowly past this life and on to the new one, leaving his bark, his body, which carried him and his indomitable spirit and endless capacity to love, for 81 years, to say farewell to one last time. This tribute is to you, for you, Pa, who always walked in the sacred steps of Jesus Christ and lived the best life which could be lived. Part I: John 1:14 "The word be...
Read more

6.6.26 - 152 - -70

-
I should try and love Singapore. And I have really tried to love it. Really. But life in Singapore is not real life. Sadly. The only thing which is real about it is my relationships with my family. I understand we lead very privileged lives. We live in a beautiful house and we live in Serangoon Gardens. I get to swim everyday. We never worry about where the next meal's coming from. Very importantly, we have our health and we have each other. These are all very good things, nothing to be sneezed at. But Singapore itself ... that's a different story. Where to begin? I cannot complain because we actually live in a very nice part of Singapore. It's it unique in all of Singapore. There is no other place like it. In fact the government should slap a preservation order on the place. It is an actual village. Ring fenced by the houses and the roads, it was possibly designed by the British Army as a defensible position. Maybe they didn't mean to do it, but it is that way neverthe...
Read more