Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • _The 4-hour Workweek_ by Timothy Ferriss I mean how can the title of this book not interest you? Who doesn’t want to be able to work only four hours a week and still make a decent living? Ferriss offers some very tangible and realistic ways to free up time or to use time efficiently to ensure that you have more time for the things that you want to be doing. He also gives…

  • Day 21:  What song are you most grateful for? This is one of my favorite songs and whenever I hear it I end up putting it on repeat. The tune is beautiful to me and the lyrics are poetically sweet. Oftentimes I find that songs in other languages touch my soul more than those in English. I am not sure why. I was just journaling recently how I have let music go a…

  • Day 20:  Who in your life are you grateful for? While it might seem easy to say my husband since I write about him quite a bit, this one is difficult to choose just one person to be grateful for. They say it takes a tribe and that we are the sum total of our five closest friends. Without these people who are closest to us, we are really nothing.  So there are…

  • “Therefore, a yogi has to adopt a peculiar and expectant attitude, like a servant awaiting his master. It is a state of relaxed preparedness. He remains poised and ever ready for an event which will occur inevitably in its own time. He accepts that to precipitate that event is not within his control or power, yet it is his destiny that it will occur and he must be ever vigilant in sadhana (meditation).…

  • _Edge of Eternity_ by Ken Follett As promised, I have finally made it to writing about the last of The Century Trilogy. Despite some reviews saying that they did not like this one as much as the others, I found that I enjoyed it just as much if not more. The family lines started in the first of the trilogy continued into another generation during a time that saw the Kennedy and Martin Luther…

  • Day 17:  What knowledge are you grateful for? Honestly, I am enjoying these gratitude questions as I find them to be thought-provoking. I mean when was the last time you considered being grateful for knowledge let alone a specific knowledge? 😛 As a person who hungers for knowledge as a way of coping with the craziness of this world, it is difficult to pinpoint a particular knowledge. However, what comes to mind in…

  • Yesterday I decided to play around with making a story via Snapchat. For someone of my generation it is difficult to take “snaps” and not save them as we grew up saving photos – I mean actual pictures you can touch – then when digital format came out we still want to save them to look at later. Therefore, a program that makes your images disappear after 24hrs seems strange. If you don’t…

  • So, I am not at all political. I do not read the news except for an occasional moment when I think I should be more aware. I joke (truthfully) that all I need to know about the world is on Facebook – or my husband tells me. 😛  As I do my best to ignore the amazing racist activities going on around the world in countries that are supposed to be the leaders…

  • _The Robber Bride_ by Margaret Atwood My foray into Margaret Atwood is spotty. It seems that I come across her books quite by accident. The first one I ever read by Atwood was _The Blind Assassin_, which I picked up at a thrift shop somewhere when I was visiting my parents. I devoured that finding it very interesting. Then, a friend of mine from graduate school recommended _The Handmaiden’s Tale_, which I picked…

  • _The Murder House_ by James Patterson In my quest to keep distracting myself and still enjoy the long Eid weekend, I decided to give myself a little reprieve from my four other books I am reading and have some ‘holiday’ pleasure. This title popped up on my Goodreads recommended list and I put it on m wishlist to save for later. I think it came up again for a discounted rate, so I…

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