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Category: On Life

Some general musings.

Adriana K. Weinert | CatchingWords.com | When it all surges at once
14/11/201814/11/2018 Adriana K. Weinert

When it all surges at once

Adriana K. Weinert | CatchingWords.com | Busy dreaming or busy living? - I have had the pleasure and honor to be longlisted for Novel Fair 2018 organized by the Irish Writers Centre. This means that my entry—the first 10 000 words of my fantasy trilogy Illumination—was among the top 10 % of nearly 250 submissions. And I’ll get my work critiqued. I won’t deny it, this feels good. I also won’t deny that I spent the two weeks after January 19th in a state of mild disenchantment despite my best efforts to rise above it...
07/02/201825/07/2018 Adriana K. Weinert

Busy dreaming or busy living?

Adriana K. Weinert | CatchingWords.com | The muck on our lenses - When I was a kid of perhaps five or six, I had this recurring longing to be able to get out of my head and experience the world through the eyes of somebody else. When strangers walked by me on the street, I would look at their faces, stare at their eyes, and wonder what they saw, how it felt to breathe through their noses, how it felt to have the thoughts of a different brain...
30/11/201725/07/2018 Adriana K. Weinert

The muck on our lenses

Adriana K. Weinert | CatchingWords.com | Finding balance in life is not a balancing act - There has been a lot of hype around the concept of finding balance in life: work-life balance, balancing social life vs me-time, balance in parenting…you name it. Recently, I listened to an interview with children’s books author and illustrator Lori Richmond (whose work is lovely, by the way) and she said something that really jarred me...
05/10/201725/07/2018 Adriana K. Weinert

Finding balance in life is not a balancing act

Adriana K. Weinert | CatchingWords.com | Turn the other cheek. Really? - Something happened to me a couple of weeks ago: one of these small occurrences which at a second glance has the depth of changing one’s perspective on life. As I was taking a turn on my bike, I collided with another bicyclist. Thankfully, it was a minor collision as we both managed to break in time. What followed, though, made me cry all the way home...
18/07/201725/07/2018 Adriana K. Weinert

Turn the other cheek. Really?

Adriana K. Weinert | CatchingWords.com | No longer hiding behind clutter - In the past few weeks, I happened to travel to various workshops. This reminded me of how much I like to sometimes be away from home. But really, why do people enjoy going away for a while? My husband and I have built a happy, peaceful home, so in my case family troubles are not the answer. The reason for my nomadic inclinations came to me only when...
22/06/201725/07/2018 Adriana K. Weinert

No longer hiding behind clutter

Adriana K. Weinert | CatchingWords.com | Keep learning, live long, live well - When I read Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, one specific detail took my deepest attention. Clarke describes (no spoilers here), in his riveting way, how astronaut David Bowman’s day on the spaceship Discovery was scheduled, and specifically states that two hours of the “day” were allotted to studying. At this point, I remember putting down the book as I stared into nothingness. I thought...
18/05/201725/07/2018 Adriana K. Weinert

Keep learning, live long, live well

Adriana K. Weinert | CatchingWords.com | Is it a weakness to go chase a dream and the discipline of free choice - “The Offering […] requires discipline, not the discipline of slavery, but the discipline of free choice.” – Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra. Let me put into context what Paulo Coelho means in the above quote. As I understand it, he talks about the discipline to freely take the choice to love our job even if it’s not our dream job. This pouring of love into doing the job, he calls the Offering...
14/04/201725/07/2018 Adriana K. Weinert

Is it a weakness to chase a dream and the discipline of free choice

Adriana K. Weinert | CatchingWords.com | When is a good time to quit a job for a dream? - A few weeks have passed since I quit my job so I could focus on my writing. And now that the mental and physical fatigue which this decision brought about are finally starting to abate, one subject I want to tackle is when is the right time to take a leap and go for a dream...
24/03/201725/07/2018 Adriana K. Weinert

When is a good time to quit a job for a dream?

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