Playful Actions (Photos)

As background for the following, I invite you to read my

• Brief Self-Introduction
• Current Activities page

and, if you're especially ambitious, my

• Worldview Summary

Playful Actions (Text Summary)

• helping Dad get up in the morning
• helping Dad dress
• driving Dad to Outpatient Rehab
• homeschooling with Aliana with emphasis on reading
• driving Aliana to the library, continuing homeschooling with the Living Books Green Eggs and Ham program
• audio listening to "Seminar" recordings of Nathaniel Branden, made monthly starting perhaps in 1969 and continuing through the early 1970s, which were distributed on LP records; in this series, he answered questions on many subjects including psychology and philosophy; on those sessions to which I speed-listened today, he discussed psychology, sex and romantic love
• finishing and posting yesterday's blog entry
• reading Ender's Game to the end...yesterday
• doing housework
• starting composition of this blog entry
• facilitating the meeting of the Membership Committee at church
• spending long overdue, quality communication time with Cherita... and losing sleep as a result

Playful Reflections (Text)

What a full and strenuous day!

Gratitude

• I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
• I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
• I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
• I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive, professional work and economic support.
• I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
• I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
• I'm grateful to Cherita for communicating and spending time with me; lately, I've been craving more of this.

Playful Actions (Photos)

As background for the following, I invite you to read my

• Brief Self-Introduction
• Current Activities page

and, if you're especially ambitious, my

• Worldview Summary

Playful Actions (Text Summary)

• helping Dad get up in the morning
• helping Dad dress
• driving Dad to Outpatient Rehab
• homeschooling with Aliana
• reading Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School by Rebecca Rupp
• weight training
• inverted stretching
• treadmilling
• supervising Aliana's treadmilling
• audio listening to "Seminar" recordings of Nathaniel Branden, made monthly starting perhaps in 1969 and continuing through the early 1970s, which were distributed on LP records; in this series, he answered questions on many subjects including psychology and philosophy; on those sessions to which I speed-listened today, he discussed psychology, sex and romantic love
• finishing and posting yesterday's blog entry
• writing and sending email including to Cherita
• starting composition of a new message for a reader who asked me a question that I really liked about my Worldview Summary
• driving to the library
• reading more of Ender's Game
• reading Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Love, Healing and Compassion by Mary Mackenzie
• organizing books
• conversing via phone with Julie
• conversing via text messages with an online friend
• starting composition of this blog entry

Playful Reflections (Text)

Yesterday's headache, achiness and sluggishness disappeared from me today - so I felt as if I were "myself again!"

Gratitude

• I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
• I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
• I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
• I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive, professional work and economic support.
• I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
• I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.

As background for the following, I invite you to read my

• Brief Self-Introduction
• Current Activities page

and, if you're especially ambitious, my

• Worldview Summary

Playful Actions (Text Summary)

• helping Dad get up in the morning
• helping Dad dress
• enduring an awful headache that lasted all day
• spending time with Aliana
• treadmilling
• reading more of Ender's Game
• homeschooling with Aliana while talking
• audio listening to "Seminar" monthly recordings of Nathaniel Branden made starting perhaps in 1969 and continuing through the early 1970s and then distributed on LP records, in which he answered questions on many subjects including psychology and philosophy
• writing and sending email including to Cherita and to a reader who asked me a welcome question about my Worldview Summary
• attending the next session of the Enlightenment class (part of The History of Christianity, with emphasis on intellectual history) at Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist (CCUU); today's session focused on Voltaire; I assisted with the playing of the DVDs

Playful Reflections (Text)

Today's headache, achiness and sluggishness left me feeling - as I described it to Cherita - as if I "just wasn't myself today." I felt as if I were struggling much of the time. Many routine tasks seemed to me burdensome.

I'm especially grateful to Cherita for all the help and support that she offered me throughout the day, particularly in responding to Dad's requests for assistance.

I'm also really grateful to the individual who wrote to me about my Worldview Summary. Our email exchange about this today really helped satisfy my needs for understanding, stimulation and learning.

Specifically, this reader and I discussed my views about living beings, including human beings, when they happen to be born with "screwed up wiring" - and how this phenomenon relates to my view that every living being acts with the aim of meeting its needs in the service of life.

This reader asked me another tough question about competition which I've been pondering (and which relates to issues I've been reflecting on for some time), and which I'm eager to further discuss with her.

This dialogue stimulates hope in me that in the near future, via intellectual discussion, I will meet my needs for self-expression, progress and learning. In recent months, I've been feeling some distress that I've not managed to meet such needs as much as I would prefer.

I'm looking forward to engaging in more dialogue with this reader about this and other matters of mutual interest.

Gratitude

• I'm especially grateful today to Cherita for her help caring for Dad, doing housework, and for expressing concern about my headache.
• I'm especially grateful today to the person who recently read and sent me a question about my Worldview Summary. This helped me meet my needs for self-expression, understanding and dialogue.
• I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
• I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
• I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive, professional work and economic support.
• I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
• I'm grateful to Rem Stokes for leading the History of Christianity series at CCUU which now focuses on The Age of Enlightenment and which is really helping contribute to my learning.

Playful Actions (Photos)

As background for the following, I invite you to read my

• Brief Self-Introduction
• Current Activities page

and, if you're especially ambitious, my

• Worldview Summary

Playful Actions (Text Summary)

• helping Dad get up in the morning
• helping Dad dress
• driving Aliana and Cherita to church
• facilitating and moderating for the Open Forum Discussion current issues discussion group (which meets weekly)
• making special, morning announcements before the worship service
• spending time with Aliana
• facilitating a discussion about youth membership
• participating in the Coming of Age meeting (Cherita and I serve this year as mentors)
• driving to the pharmacy
• reading more of Ender's Game
• homeschooling with Aliana while talking
• audio listening
• writing and sending email
• attending the meeting of the Communicating Compassionately Covenant Group (which meets monthly)

Playful Reflections (Text)

Today was again crazily busy for me. Again, I'd like to take some time to slow down.

Gratitude

I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.

I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.

I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.

I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive, professional work and economic support.

I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.

I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.