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Post 1715, Day 235 of 2016
- 2,061 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
- 2,061 days since I started this blog -
I am reading "Faithfully Religionless" by Timber Hawkeye.
Slowly.
It's a memoir. He uses his personal anecdotes to illustrate his philosophy, his beliefs. I'm finding it very dense with good ideas.
He engages me on a very relatable level - I find it slow going because a lot of what I'm reading triggers thoughts and ideas of my own - slowing me down.
Today, I read his differentiation between feelings and emotions, which I tend to lump together as if they were the same.
I have been accused of being unemotional. I have taken this as an attack based on a misunderstanding, and often gotten defensive about it, usually in that I have normal amounts of emotions, I just tend not to be very expressive about it.
But I was wrong, according to my new understanding. What I have a normal amount of are feelings. I tend not to dramatize them, and that is why people think I am unemotional. Now I see it as pretty accurate, although I suspect there is still a lot of misunderstanding of the relationship between feelings and emotions.
And I see how people might not recognize my feelings because they aren't surrounded by familiar emotions that explain and dramatize them. Emotions are the PR version of feelings, the externalization of something internal.
I feel as though this book has enlightened me by clarifying ideas that were formless in my thinking. I'm reading it so slowly, that after three days, I'm only halfway through it, and it is only 137 pages long.
That's what happens when you have to stop reading so often to think, or just withdraw from the intensity of your feelings.
Slowly.
It's a memoir. He uses his personal anecdotes to illustrate his philosophy, his beliefs. I'm finding it very dense with good ideas.
He engages me on a very relatable level - I find it slow going because a lot of what I'm reading triggers thoughts and ideas of my own - slowing me down.
Today, I read his differentiation between feelings and emotions, which I tend to lump together as if they were the same.
I have been accused of being unemotional. I have taken this as an attack based on a misunderstanding, and often gotten defensive about it, usually in that I have normal amounts of emotions, I just tend not to be very expressive about it.
But I was wrong, according to my new understanding. What I have a normal amount of are feelings. I tend not to dramatize them, and that is why people think I am unemotional. Now I see it as pretty accurate, although I suspect there is still a lot of misunderstanding of the relationship between feelings and emotions.
And I see how people might not recognize my feelings because they aren't surrounded by familiar emotions that explain and dramatize them. Emotions are the PR version of feelings, the externalization of something internal.
I feel as though this book has enlightened me by clarifying ideas that were formless in my thinking. I'm reading it so slowly, that after three days, I'm only halfway through it, and it is only 137 pages long.
That's what happens when you have to stop reading so often to think, or just withdraw from the intensity of your feelings.
Food and Diet
Today's Weight: 203.2 lbs.
Diet Comment
Previous Weight (8/19): 200.8 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: + 2.4 lbs.
Diet Comment
I ate terribly over the weekend - party food, mostly. Restaurants. I don't think I had a single low-carb, on-plan meal going since Friday. I feel like I got away with something with a two-and-a-half pound gain.
Food Log
Breakfast
6:45pm: London broil with broccoli, chia seeds, hemp seeds, and Dal Tadka (lentil curry) and cottage cheese.
Dinner
11:45pm: Pepperoni and Dubliner cheese with cole slaw, celery and home-made mayonnaise, and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Lunch
9:00pm: A Quest bar.Dinner
11:45pm: Pepperoni and Dubliner cheese with cole slaw, celery and home-made mayonnaise, and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 0; Coffee: 0 oz.; Tea: 16 oz.; Water: 72+ oz.
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