DISQUS

Derek Shanahan | My Personal Blog: Return To Chicago

  • verybadcat · 5 months ago
    Hmm. Maybe love overrules time; the more you have of the former, the less concerned you are with the latter? ;) Welcome home.
  • DShan · 5 months ago
    I think love and family are certainly more important than our busy
    schedules, but as a person who's constantly busy I hate to dismiss the
    importance of the hustle and bustle. Now that I'm back, I'm uncomfortable
    with it, but I know I'll fall right back into the mix over the next day or
    two.
  • verybadcat · 5 months ago
    I'm quite the little type A over here, so I get what you're saying. What I meant was that when you're in the thick of enjoying people you love, the hustle and bustle falls to the wayside. Balance in all things and all that. ;)
  • doniree · 5 months ago
    Did you rearrange things here? This looks different. Hrm. And I'm so jealous of how much time you got to unplug last week! Would KILL for a week where I was forced to turn off like that, ha.
  • DShan · 5 months ago
    I did, a bit. I am trying to reduce clutter and give the posts a little
    more space. I have no idea if I'm successful and said goals but I hope to
    get there in the next decade or so:)
  • The Maiden Metallurgist · 5 months ago
    That sounds heavenly. What I wouldn’t give to get out of the city for a stretch. Maybe next year.
  • DShan · 5 months ago
    Yeah...it's really my only escape each year. Oh, to be able to vacation
    more!
  • Matt Stratton · 5 months ago
    This comment is here just to prove that I can comment using Internet Explorer.
  • blaez · 5 months ago
    welcome back!!! puppies need grandma time too :)

    i call my cats my kids and refer to our parents as thier grandparents :)
  • DShan · 5 months ago
    Haha! That's great...I don't know how my mother feels about it but she'll
    have to live with it, I guess!
  • nicopolitan · 5 months ago
    I think it suggests that maybe your safe haven away from the world takes away the sense of time in order to open up a different sense. Like a 3rd eye, but more familial, and less new-age sounding.

    Just guessing here.