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My patience is being tested on every front and I love it. Reading a book called 'Mastery' by George Leonard that is all about these times - he calls them plateaus. The learning happens on the plateau. Funny that one of my fa....strange actually that a few of my bibles all point to this exact same theory.
'Solace of Open Spaces' by Gretel Ehrlich is the story of life on the Wyoming range - the plateau. Ehrlich was a busy, high falutin' New York filmmaker with her husband gone out to the Big Horns to make a doc about life there. He develops a fatal disease, returns to New York to die and she stays in Wyoming to learn what it has to teach her. Life on the plateau. Viscious and expansive.
'The Writing Life' by Annie Dillard. More of the same but in a different form - staring at the page, the screen, horizontal blinds on the windows at her favourite library - moving through the doubting zones into that place that is flat, broad and calm. The place where the brain can do its thing.
'Seven Story Mountain' by Thomas Merton. Life of an ascetic. A very bright, rule breaking ascetic. Just my kind.
So what's my plateau? I'm buried in work, my chest is not clearing up, and I want to spend every moment I can with my son before I pull into the 'production hole' at work. I can't ride 3 hours a day at the moment. I can't ride outside either. Plus the sponsorship front for the team is slow. It's moving but it is slow. Plus I've hit a period of serious closure in my relationship with Joe's mom that is big and difficult. Looking for the positive way we can be to give Joe the best platform from which to Strive.
Torque. Remember Torque Bolton.
So what can I do? I can learn about what this time has to teach me. I've juggled things - moved my production period to the mornings 4 am to 8 am. Yoga, weights, brain activity. My parents are helping me out a great deal, taking Joe one of the weekend days so that I can continue to work. I'll have him for weekends for the next two months, his mother graciously taking him during the weeks including mine.
It's not fun parenting this way but it is what it is. It will be his plateau.
My diet is coming along beautifully. Working hard to cut out the sugar and processed foods. It's tremendously difficult to do but worth it. Coffee is next. Good luck!
Loving it. Hard but loving it.
'Solace of Open Spaces' by Gretel Ehrlich is the story of life on the Wyoming range - the plateau. Ehrlich was a busy, high falutin' New York filmmaker with her husband gone out to the Big Horns to make a doc about life there. He develops a fatal disease, returns to New York to die and she stays in Wyoming to learn what it has to teach her. Life on the plateau. Viscious and expansive.
'The Writing Life' by Annie Dillard. More of the same but in a different form - staring at the page, the screen, horizontal blinds on the windows at her favourite library - moving through the doubting zones into that place that is flat, broad and calm. The place where the brain can do its thing.
'Seven Story Mountain' by Thomas Merton. Life of an ascetic. A very bright, rule breaking ascetic. Just my kind.
So what's my plateau? I'm buried in work, my chest is not clearing up, and I want to spend every moment I can with my son before I pull into the 'production hole' at work. I can't ride 3 hours a day at the moment. I can't ride outside either. Plus the sponsorship front for the team is slow. It's moving but it is slow. Plus I've hit a period of serious closure in my relationship with Joe's mom that is big and difficult. Looking for the positive way we can be to give Joe the best platform from which to Strive.
Torque. Remember Torque Bolton.
So what can I do? I can learn about what this time has to teach me. I've juggled things - moved my production period to the mornings 4 am to 8 am. Yoga, weights, brain activity. My parents are helping me out a great deal, taking Joe one of the weekend days so that I can continue to work. I'll have him for weekends for the next two months, his mother graciously taking him during the weeks including mine.
It's not fun parenting this way but it is what it is. It will be his plateau.
My diet is coming along beautifully. Working hard to cut out the sugar and processed foods. It's tremendously difficult to do but worth it. Coffee is next. Good luck!
Loving it. Hard but loving it.
posted by Christopher Bolton at 5:28 AM
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