Month: June 2011

• June 30, 2011

  Work today: longer hours + more time with kids = burn-out

  Update: Wanna be less busy? There’s still time! No “Skype Walk-in” this Thursday or Saturday, but there are still openings for the upcoming “Skype Workshop.” Would another day work for “Skype Walk-in”? Let me know! — Sighting yesterday: Black woman walking in Central Park. Pink cell phone under bra. On top of left breast. Symptom of busyness. Sign…
• June 29, 2011

  Good-bye, cell phone; hello, birdies

  Update: Wanna be less busy? There’s still time! No “Skype Walk-in” this Thursday or Saturday, but there are still openings for the upcoming “Skype Workshop.” Would another day work for “Skype Walk-in”? Let me know! — So you got rid of your cell phone? Yeah. What are you going to do now? Eat, pray, and love. Oh,…
• June 28, 2011

  Busyness is not absorption

  Update: Wanna be less busy? There’s still time! No “Skype Walk-in” this Thursday, but there’s still room this Saturday. Also, there are still openings for the upcoming “Skype Workshop.” Would another day work for “Skype Walk-in”? Let me know! — At our peril, we confuse being busy with being absorbed. The first is abuzz with…
• June 27, 2011

  What’s the matter with being so busy? 2 invitations to Skype

  The Question Why are we so busy all the time, and why do we valorize busyness in some cases despite feeling overwhelmed by it in others? The Proposal Two proposals, as a matter of fact, both of which are centered on the problem of busyness. 1st Proposal: “Skype Walk-ins.” I’d like to try setting aside…
• June 26, 2011

  Simplify, simplify

  Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail. An…