A Late Bloomer Bride Preview for January and Beyond
ByIt is ten days into the new year and already I’m behind. Pining for a day where I can do nothing but read and write, I decided to get organized and assess all the good stuff that has come this way recently to blog about. (As if getting organized means I’m being productive somehow.)
Wow.
“Taking stock” produced a long list.
Consider this post a Late Bloomer Bride preview.
For one, I have been completely sucked into PBS’s recent special on “This Emotional Life.” It is the coolest show, which I hope doesn’t sound resoundingly un-cool to say. The show is all about how our emotions shape us and our lives – particularly our level of happiness. In coming days, I’m going to address some of the theories, scientific research, and postulates formed by the show’s researchers, host and guests and run them through a late bloomer bride perspective. They talk about love and romance a lot, so it begs for LBB consideration.
On top of that my nightstand is groaning under no less than 20 half-read books. Warren Zevon said, “We buy books under the mistaken assumption that we’re also buying time to read them. Guilty. I am officially on amazon.com restriction. (Darn. ‘Cause I have my eye on about five Swedish interior design books.)
So, expect some notes and recommendations from the book shelf:
- Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert. This book was written for me. Not really, but it seems that way.
- The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of your Life with the Law of Attraction by Arielle Ford. If you are single and wish you weren’t, leave this post right now and go to her site.
- A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveler by Frances Mayes. Because I really wish right now I was in Madrid and not freezing my booty off in Virginia. And, how you travel together counts.
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene. Understanding quantum physics is good for relationships.
- The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife by Marianne Williamson. I’m still not buying it, and something tells me I need to in order to have a healthy relationship.
- The Emotional Energy Factors: The Secrets High Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue by Mira Kirshenbaum. Those of us converted from long-time singlehood to marriage could use this kind of help.
- Women & Love: Finding True Love While Staying True to Yourself; the 8 Make-or-Break Experiences in Women’s Lives by Mira Kirshenbaum. Yes, I am a groupie.
- The Power of Empathy: You Can Really Connect With Him by A.R. Maslow, Ph.D. I don’t read as much self-help as it seems. Really.
- A slew of books on Scandinavia to prepare myself for the Great Vacation Trek Across the Ocean in 2011 to the land of my peeps.
- And, a couple of design books in a futile attempt to inch Husband and I closer to new-house-design compromise. Year four and we’re still musing.
Add to the pile some rather interesting developments among family and friends (don’t worry folks, no one will be “outed”), a long list of other blogs you really should be reading, and a few other surprise musings in the works, and you could say I have enough material to get us through at least winter. New year here we come!
