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One step forward
And about three steps back on this recovery road. My sister has the perfect example from her own life challenges: before she can get to...

Marichit Garcia
Sep 4, 20231 min read


Time, Energy, Space
Recent reflections and reviews of my routines (as part of my therapy) revealed that my most precious currencies are my time, energy, and...

Marichit Garcia
Sep 2, 20231 min read


I have been unwell.
Hence I have been mostly off this site. But I am now in the middle of a two-week leave and I am working on recovering my life enough to...

Marichit Garcia
Sep 2, 20231 min read


This is Monday
I forgot to take my meds. I actually forgot to take them for the past 4 days or so because I was feeling quite well. And now the Thing...

Marichit Garcia
May 8, 20231 min read


Re-mapping Routines
This applies to both work and home. For work, it's mainly about moving on from not too pleasant brief encounters. For home, it's about...

Marichit Garcia
May 7, 20232 min read


In that limbo space between exhaustion and sleep
I just had a three-day weekend during which I worked. There was a situation at work that led to my working too many extra hours. I am...

Marichit Garcia
Apr 23, 20232 min read


Today, Saturday
I live from paycheck to paycheck and my goal is to start a real savings account. I already have the bank account but not yet the money....

Marichit Garcia
Apr 15, 20231 min read


It All Adds Up
So I pushed myself to restart doing a page a day in my sketchbook. I made it a small sketchbook to help myself a bit. Day job work has...

Marichit Garcia
Mar 29, 20231 min read


(Re)starting my daily sketchbook habit
To make it easy I am starting small.

Marichit Garcia
Mar 23, 20231 min read


A Life on a Tightrope
One wrong move, one miscalculation of balance, and I fall and I perish. This blog entry will be a lament. But maybe I will find a bright...

Marichit Garcia
Feb 19, 20233 min read


The Thin Wall
I finally had the time, money, and energy to visit my doctor a couple of days ago. It was a super late follow-up consult since February...

Marichit Garcia
Jan 22, 20232 min read


Battle with Brain Fog
Worst fog today. Kept forgetting what I was supposed to do. Then I lose focus. And then I am also so very sleepy. My head would...

Marichit Garcia
Jan 19, 20231 min read


Fighting through the fog of fatigue
Sometime within the day I should have a longish post. It's a local holiday today so I get to take a little break from work although I...

Marichit Garcia
Nov 30, 20221 min read


Sometimes I just need a void to scream into
Or a void to monologue into. Which is what I am about to do now. No holding back now. At some point in my creative online life, I worried...

Marichit Garcia
Nov 13, 20222 min read


The Long and Short of it
I have always been pressured to write nice longish blog posts and when I can't then I don't write at all. Which is an easy path to not...

Marichit Garcia
Nov 12, 20223 min read


Going for it
Signed up for the full weekend on Aug 6-7. Saturday is a make-up day for last Saturday's canceled event. Sunday is an extension day. I...

Marichit Garcia
Aug 3, 20222 min read


In Perpetual Process
Good thing I've more or less learned to trust my process. It's not a thing that actually ends but goes on and on. When you reach a new...

Marichit Garcia
Aug 2, 20222 min read


February was a Tough Month
As you already know, I was sick for a week at the beginning of it. Then my paycheck was cut in half because I didn’t have any paid leaves...

Marichit Garcia
Mar 10, 20222 min read


First Weekend: Time Traveling and Tangled Thoughts
The first week of the dayjob has worn me out so badly that I fell asleep right after dinner on Friday night and slept right through into...

Marichit Garcia
Jan 23, 20223 min read


Day 4. This is hard.
The transition to a full-time work routine has been tough. No art has been made. No anything outside of the work. At the end of the day I...

Marichit Garcia
Jan 20, 20222 min read