Happy New Ear!

and New Year too .. for my new year's resolution, thanks to Kathryn Borel Jr. (author of Corked! - a Memoir of Wine and Existential Dread" -- from today's National Post (why I subscribed to the NP is a story for another blog entry"

I would do a link to her book but I can't find one. If it's as good as this quote, I want to read it.

Says she:

"Don't trust all your feelings right away ..

I have a long and explosive history of experiencing a large scale feeling, trusting that it is correct and making twisted life decisions based on what turns out to be a mere impulse, as opposed to a real emotion. Like most significant things, big life truths or important feelings tend to take a bit of time to reveal themselves in full... I now generally squash the impulse to make public -- or private -- proclamations of big feelings. I mix the truth with a little time and light and measured discussion and see if it holds as steady as I thought it did in the first place. And then I act."

I think she's a bit further ahead of me when it comes to this particular skill .. I expect this will be hard work for me.