Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • It has not happened yet, but I can feel the pattern beginning. Last night, I fell asleep peacefully around 10pm, woke up a little here and there, but suddenly at 11:44pm, I was awake. My mind began to move with thoughts and tinges of worry. We have given our two months notice for the apartment. This means we need to know what we are doing – staying in the country or leaving. If…

  • As I hope it is apparent by now, I am fascinated by the human condition. It amazes me what people do, think and instigate. Being someone who stays pretty calm most of the time, but is also greatly affected by the energy of others, I am often in an observatory mode when around other people or forced to interact, whether electronically or face-to-face, with others. For the most part, I love technology. I…

  • For a while now we have been doing Airbnb with one of our rooms in our over-sized apartment. It is a way of making some extra money and also making use of the space. In previous years, I hosted guests on Couchsurfing. However, it is more difficult in this country to Couchsurf, but recently the Airbnb has become legal and encouraged in some ways. We have had a few come and go. For…

  • Things are starting to slow down a little bit or at least wind down with Ramadan coming soon and the summer life here in the desert. It is both good and bad. The good is that I will have a bit more free time to work on some other projects. I have a few lined up such as finally cleaning out the boxes and papers that I have been ignoring since we moved,…

  • Ever since we met in 2014 we have taken a yearly trip to Fujairah as a getaway weekend. I remember our first one fondly as it was when we were just getting our hearts around the idea that love was in the air. Each year when we return, we re-connect and re-kindle the flames of our love that is always alight, but refreshed with time away as holidays have a knack for doing.…

  • It has been a slow exercise week. I am struggling a bit in getting myself into a proper workout routine outside of the yoga sessions. Perhaps I will be able to find some focus after we get away this weekend.  I did try a new sequence used by the Ashtanga primary series via YouTube, which I enjoyed and felt the benefits of. So, I imagine I shall incorporate that more into my exercise…

  • I became aware of Sam Harris through the Mindfulness Summit in 2015. He struck me as incredibly intelligent and as someone who would not choose a way of life without thorough study of it. When I first started on the podcasts, I started listening to Waking Up and found it fascinating. If you crave intellectual stimulation with a skeptic’s eye, this is definitely the podcast for you.  Harris discusses a variety of topics…

  • One of the distinct differences I have encountered since living on the other side of the world and in a culture equally foreign is our approach to adversity.  The Western (or American) mind that I grew up with is that obstacles are immovable and we need to innovate how to overcome them either on our own or with the help of others. Once we find a route or method that works we generally…

  • This is my regular dilemma in life – I want to write and yet I do not write what I want to write or do not write enough. While I claim it is time, which it is, it is also discipline, focus and drive. If I were driven enough, surely I would have completed my first novel by now…. I recall my early university days when I would write my angst away by…

  • Well, oops is that I missed yesterday!  So, I have a couple of never agains…, or maybe not any time soon. First, I do not think I will be drinking more than a glass or two of alcoholic beverages ever again. I seem to not be able to digest it even and my stomach has been acting up since the weekend. I had a small glass last night and that did not sit…

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