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      • dayofDH
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      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
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Creative Mornings

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room for randomness

Lately I’ve had multiple days where I have had back-to-back meetings for 5 or 6 hours, sometimes even more. Moreover my schedule this semester includes a 4.5-hour teaching block on Thursday evenings, which can be both the most draining and the most enlivening hours of my week.

So it’s Monday now and I am looking over my calendar and ensuring that I have a few “holes” of time where I can put my head down and work, rather than be leading a committee or teaching a class or a workshop. Because I fear that if I am simply running from meeting to meeting to class to training, then I’m likely missing the time I need to have a conversation with a colleague or to solve large problems. I am likely to simply be in list-making mode rather than in a space of productivity.

Thus, this quote from Jim Barnes (via Creative Mornings) resonated with me. Because it’s actually work to ensure that I have the free spot in my calendar, but I know that it’s an investment that is well worth the effort.

November 27, 2017
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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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