1. Physiology or Bio-mechanics or Anatomy or whatever it should be called. I am fascinated by the way my body works. Like when I tell my trainer that I've noticed in photos that I bend too far forward when I skate or ski, and she says, "oh, that's because you are quad and hip flexor dominant" (?), or how she can tell I slept weird by counting my vertebrae beneath my shoulder level. I realize how much my body has compensated in some areas due to weaknesses in other (stronger quads due to weaker core and hamstrings, weird issues due to my shoulder problems, how may knee achiness may be alleviated by stretching a muscle in my calf I didn't know was there etc.). It's always fascinating when I learn something new whether by noticing it myself or being told. And it makes a great massage even sweeter.
2. Spirituality. What is it? How do you get it? How do you keep it? What does it require of you? How much is intellectual? How much is actual, i.e. doing? Hmmmm. Why is it important? What does it mean for my kids? Not a lot of answers.
3. Aging. Yes, I am, so are you. But in what ways? What's good about getting older? Wisdom? Self knowledge and acceptance? What's bad (besides the achin' body!)? Less time to fix things you want to fix? Or do things you want to do? I have a few more answers here than #2, but still have a lot of questions, mostly around how will the next 45 years be different from the first 45. (As I am ALMOST, but NOT QUITE 46).
4. Raising girls (I guess kids in general, but girls for sure). My two (as many of your know) are completely different, and I foresee very different issues (and joys) with them. But the world of friendship, and school, and talent, and interest is very tangled, and I want to walk them through it with as much strength, confidence, and empathy as I can in a way that works for each of them. So I read, and I talk and I think. And then I try to remember to listen to them.
5. Organization. What are some people neat and some people not. I am not. I try, really I do, but I'm apparently not genetically pre-disposed. I take comfort in the fact that I am neater than my mom was (she was a clutter bug to beat most clutter bugs.....there were three of us in the house and the fourth chair at the table was always piled a foot high with papers, stuff, detritus whatever.....my pile is only about 2 inches high! progress!). Is it systems that work that make people neat? Is it an obsession I don't have? (I have many others, mind you!). Am I just lazy? (You don't necessarily need to answer that question!).
Ok, back to the mundane. What's for breakfast?
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Vis a vis spirituality - I can lend you Meg Funk's book 'Thoughts Matter' if you have time to read. It's the simplest, no BS book on spirituality everyday that I have ever read. Spirituality is hardwired; how we approach and work with it is not. IMO, of course. : ) Interesting to see how Ab and Gil differ there, even this early, isn't it?
Vis a vis organization - I dunno - I'm more like you. Julie Morgenstern says everyone has a corner of their life that is organized. When you figure out what that is and why you can extrapolate that to everything else. Personally I think I get disorganized when I try to take on too much - I'd love a Jeeves, wouldn't you? : )
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