As the month winds down, I find myself losing track of my resolutions.  As though I’ve reached the finish line.

I have to keep reminding myself that the end of this month means nothing, really, in terms of the promises I’ve made to myself.  Just days, preceded by days, followed by days.  It’s anti-climactic.

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Today was a weird day.  We had plans … which we should have known would change and morph so many times that the day would end up looking completely different than we’d imagined.

But once again, we didn’t realize it and it was a frustrating exercise in lack of communication and two types of polar opposite people — those who plan and follow through, and those who live a little bit more … spontaneously?  Yeah.  We’ll say that.

Anyway.  I ended up spending some unplanned time reading this morning as John made flies (Santa brought him all the fixings for Christmas, but he hasn’t been able to find time to pursue it until today).  Nearly a year ago my yoga teacher recommended a book called Why Buddhism is True and while I purchased it at the time, I hadn’t sat down to read it with any degree of focus until now.

It blew my mind.  It’s fascinating and terrifying and pushes the boundaries of the mind (I’m assuming for anyone who has not extensively studied Buddhism before endeavoring to read it). I’m loving the added perspectives it has contributed to my always-evolving life view.

I am also loving the conversations it has inspired between John and I, as I attempt to explain what I’ve just read (I learned that I understood more of it than I initially thought -which pleased me very much).  It’s fun to have big conversations about ideas and theories every once in awhile — it breaks up the usual talk  of work, Peloton rides and Marvel movies/shows.   (Although, side note, WandaVision is everything I hoped it would be, and more!).

I like reading because even if it’s “just” fiction, it changes and expands my mind and I like the feeling of learning and growing.  I read A Man Called Ove last summer and the themes and story of it still haunt my thoughts sometimes.  It was incredible.

I’m such a book nerd.  Haha!  Happy Saturday, friends.  I hope yours is a good one!

Xoxo, g