Mindful Storage

New spice racks in cupboard to replace old shelf on the wall that threw spice containers at your head whenever you tried to take one off.

Slide Journal

Chapter 12 in Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad:

Great Rock and Roll Pauses

Free presentation software for Mac:  NeoOffice


My first journal slide: 

Mindful Eating Insights

First day of Lenten practice of Mindful Eating reveals:

• I get bored when I just eat without doing something else, too.  
• That's a really privileged problem.  People without enough food value every morsel that passes their lips.  If I didn't have too much to eat, I wouldn't get bored with it.
• I've learned to turn off much of my attention while eating because I'm so physically hypersensitive to textures, etc.
• The fried eggs being a little too runny really bothered me this morning.
• Years of having to eat every 3 hours to keep my blood sugar up whether I was interested in eating right then or not has ingrained in me the habit of eating for fuel's sake only—"Let's just shove it in and get it over with."
• Is it wrong sometimes to just view food as fuel and not something to be savored bite by bite?
• A 40+ year habit of eating fast is really hard to break.