{"id":4113,"date":"2014-12-01T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2014-12-01T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T03:01:00","slug":"december-daily-2014-a-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/december-daily-2014-a-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"December Daily 2014 – A Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These are Alex’s hands. I took a picture of him when he was sleeping during a road trip that we took to visit the Herbert Hoover Library and Museum and meet up with a friend. When I look at that picture now I basically feel what I felt when I looked over and saw that deep sleep he enjoyed.<\/p>\n

This is why I’ve taken up pocket scrapbooking.<\/p>\n

My internet footprint speaks to how much I like to document things, but this scrapbook thing brings it home in a different way. I like when Alex flips through one of the pages and reminisces on what happened like a little old man.<\/p>\n

This is why I’ve decided to give December Daily<\/a> a try this year. That and I love to plan things. Planning things makes me feel so orderly. Here we are on the first of December, and the binder that I began preparing a couple of weeks ago is ready to be used. I’ve even identified some fonts that I imagine using as I document this holiday season.<\/p>\n

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The other thing that I’m trying to do is slow down a bit and enjoy the holiday season, which is the point of December Daily. Lately, I’ve been having more and more trouble with the slow down thing. I always want to do several things at a time. I want to push toward many goals. That’s just the way I do things, but I can tell when I’m starting to push too hard. The words leave. Not here, the writing words rarely leave unless there is a reason that I have retreated from them. The spoken words are the ones that run away. When I have too many things going on, when I’m pushing too hard, I am like a computer with too many programs running. I stall out in the performance of tasks that should be no trouble.<\/p>\n

So, part of what I want to do is linger over hot chocolate. I want to watch some holiday movies. I want to slowly take a walk and photograph holiday lights.<\/p>\n

I want to enjoy the season.<\/p>\n

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