Pumpkin Pie and Ruminations

Posted Sun Nov 15, 2009 in Ruminations

OK, the day is coming to a close, at least for me. I just watched a half-dozen eBay auctions close. I’m going through my things, deciding which might sell, listing them on eBay, and the packing and shipping them. The money is going into my PayPal account — an ad-hoc savings account where I’m parking some mad money. I sometimes purchase things off eBay or another source that uses PayPal, but I’m not buying so much these days.

Instead, I’m thinking about what I want and where I want it. There are things I want to do; not things I want to have. If there are things necessary to enable me to do one of the things I want to do, then I’ll go about the process of acquiring those necessary things. Other than that, my goal is to reduce the number of things in my life.

I think I mentioned that I watched Wayne Dyer talk about “enough” and “more” early Friday morning. Those ideas have been rattling around in my head the last few days. I think there is wisdom there.

The image simply cracks me up. It’s gone viral by my read of the interwebs and I can see why — particularly at this time of year. I’m thinking we should have a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving and I’m halfway tempted to make one from scratch. I can probably enlist Young Son to assist and we’ll do the crust and filling for the pie, then bake it. I’m still thinking about this, but I think it could be a fun way to spend an hour together doing something creative.

The sun just dropped behind the Carson Range a few minutes ago. With the failing light my emotions always drop a little. I guess that’s just part of being me.

I go back and read the “year ago” entries on the right sidebar. There is interesting stuff there (good stuff). I’m still amazed that I’m writing on this space after eight years. I never thought it would go on this long.

Weird… kinda like the pooping-pumpkin-guy. =8-0