tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037641.post116291817490857694..comments2023-09-07T08:13:32.442-07:00Comments on Powellhurst: Melancholy MondayMartinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919215971601240222noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037641.post-1163271062810229892006-11-11T10:51:00.000-08:002006-11-11T10:51:00.000-08:00P.s. Tuesday's election outcomes did (for the most...P.s. Tuesday's election outcomes did (for the most part...Karen Minnis, why? Why, I ask of you Troutdale and environs????) brighten my spirits!Martinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919215971601240222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037641.post-1163270953056160802006-11-11T10:49:00.000-08:002006-11-11T10:49:00.000-08:00That does sound like an interesting book. I'm real...That does sound like an interesting book. I'm really fascinated by the idea that we do choose our own realities and that we actually do have a choice in which things we allow to upset us. I think there comes a point with the big upheavals (death, etc.) where that choice becomes more and more difficult to control, but on a smaller, daily level, I like the idea that while we cannot control what goes on outside, we can determine how we are going to react to it and how much we will let it get to us. Being a person who does sometimes tend to allow little injustices to snowball in to a big, giant funk of a mood, it's a good thing for me to remember.Martinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919215971601240222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037641.post-1162957626976780382006-11-07T19:47:00.000-08:002006-11-07T19:47:00.000-08:00oh, I'm so sorry you had a melancholy monday. Thos...oh, I'm so sorry you had a melancholy monday. Those are no fun at all. I hope that tuesday was better for you!<BR/><BR/>It's funny that you post about making our own inner landscape today -- yesterday I just got a book on the brain from the library that talks about this same issue, among others. (a mind of its own: how your brain distorts and deceives by cordelia fine). I'm only a few chapters in, but it is fascinating.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16998413591822017096noreply@blogger.com