Archive for February, 2010May my work…Friday, February 12th, 2010May my work be the way May it be my worship May it be the growing of my heart and the connecting of my soul May it be my reaching out and drawing in May it lead me home Written while on retreat at the ZeroCarbonHouse, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
How to stay cheerful when technology failsMonday, February 8th, 2010This post was inspired by a week in which my desktop had a virus. Virgin Media had changed its servers so I couldn’t access my emails. My spanking new laptop stared blankly at me and resolutely refused to run Windows 7 and the computer I had borrowed froze so many times I spent more hours hitting the refresh button than I did getting any work done. (I also had an ankle injury and had to take my child out of nursery but that’s not the point of this post. The point is to find a way of smiling like a Buddhist cat amidst that particular frustration that could not have existed before the internet was invented.) This is what I said to myself: (more…) |