Tuesday, almost fully half-way to Pascha

Tomorrow, as I heard on Sunday,

is half-way to Pascha.

How much we all want to be there!

But we need to go through Great Lent...

the Resurrection comes by going through the Cross...

So I had a tablet.

It died. Just a Lenten temptation. 

There are many of these.

So now I have a chromebook.

I am learning how to use it and cleaned up my 

Google drive files...

Spring cleaning electronically I gather.

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I am thinking a lot these days on how to make our

lives not only more functional, but more beautiful.

Clutter and general apathy in terms of habits/mess

means that a lot of changes that

frankly are not easy to do.

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It's funny but building habits like

putting things away immediately are hard to master.

I am weak and so keep thinking and working on it, 

trying to pray...

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I managed to clean up my Google drive and my actual desk area...

Laundry, that other constant, still needs to be done... 

Yet the orchid has a second flower now...

and a third on the way.

1 hour of watering, 1 day/week.

God is very merciful.

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It takes a long time, at least in my life,

to realize what one needs to do

and how to reorient oneself to live in a more

whole manner, 

which I am seeing is not found in some grand philosophy

or understanding a profound truth,

though we need these too,

but it is in things like cleaning one's desk,

putting away paper, making one's bed,

washing clothes.

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So many times it is just the little things that I can do

but doing them consistently makes for 

a more peaceful, ordered and beautiful existence.