This week was the first week in a long time that I felt like things were (back) in balance. I know the concept of balance is tricky, though, and so I don’t hold too strongly to the notion of responding perfectly to life’s evolving demands. Life is meant to become out of balance—some weeks we work more to push through a big project, other weeks a sick child needs our attention. Life ebbs and flows as it will, and that’s okay.
One of the things I love about reading blogs and listening to podcasts, is that I’m often presented with ideas that are different than mine.
In the last two weeks I’ve read three books that completely challenged me. I sped through every chapter and was even late to work because I couldn’t put one down. What stunned me about these books was not so much their creative subject matter, but the way each book’s voice created a rich, multi-layered, and thoughtfully described world for its characters to inhabit.