cheese and no reading

So glad to see comments and Cicada's post!

I, too, share the cheese dilemma. Jane told me the other day, however, that our recycling facility handles "films" of all types (plastic bags, cereal bags, cheese wrappers?). I was a bit dubious but am going to investigate! Of course, the goal is to eliminate even recyclable packaging, but being able to recycle a cheese wrapper is a step in the right direction.

And about the metaphysical "waste not" challenge: I'm reading/doing this book called The Artist's Way, a Spiritual Path to Creativity by Julia Cameron. It's a 12-week course that involves daily journaling ("morning pages") and other self-illuminating :) tasks. I am enjoying it! This past week's main challenge was to not read... That was hard! I wasn't expecting it and was a bit miffed by the book's audacity to even suggest such a thing! I decided to continue my commitment to the book, though, and included internet in the "reading" category. This was actually good timing, since I've realized that I waste a good deal of time aimlessly searching the web, and I wanted to replace that with more useful, healthy, active things.

Instead of internet this week, I called people, played the piano, cooked multiple real meals, cleaned, did laundry, cleaned again, went to fun events (a movie and discussion night about wind power!), started an art project (Cicada's to-be-belated birthday present...) that I've wanted to so for over a year. I definitely feel like it was a full and good week, and I liked not having so much face time with the computer. Strangely, though, I got less sleep than usual...

More later. Please take a minute to read Geoff's quotes in the comments. Here's one: “This intense apathy in all of us is the first great mystery of life; it stands in the way of every perception, every virtue. There is no making ourselves feel enough astonishment at it….I tell you truly that, as I strive more with this strange lethargy and trance in myself, and awake to the meaning and power of life, it seems daily more amazing to me that men should dare to play with the most precious truths.” 334 John Ruskin