Category Archives: intellectual stuff

Gifted and Disorganized

Posted on December 7, 2012 by raisingsmartgirls

This week has been a very slow work week for me.  I contracted a nasty stomach virus last Friday night from my adorable students/germ factories, and spent most of the wee hours of Saturday vomiting and emptying my bowels just … Continue reading →

Posted in about the smart girls, Clutter, creativity, gifted adults, Gifted and Disorganized, gifted children, gifted support, highly sensitive mom, intellectual stuff, messie, organization, personal growth | 8 Comments

Blizzards and Boredom and Bertrand Russell.

Posted on December 13, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

What better way to spend a snowy midwest winter evening than curled up with a cup of hot cocoa and Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness.   It was written in 1930, but it’s still very much appropriate and inspiring.   It … Continue reading →

Posted in boredom strikes, gifted adults, gifted children, gifted support, intellectual stuff, introspection, personal growth | 6 Comments

Tough lesson to learn…

Posted on August 7, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

I think I have pretty much decided that there is something I am supposed to be learning here that I can not learn as long as I keep trying to make friends. I’m actually not depressed or frustrated.  This isn’t … Continue reading →

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This other me…this other life

Posted on July 31, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

A metamorphic process is underway in me.   It’s something that began 6 years ago…when I stepped out of the treadmill of conventional service-for-pay employment. I’ve been engaged in some online conversation about finding meaningful work when you have many gifts/talents … Continue reading →

Posted in butterfly, career, combining science and motherhood, creative space, gifted adults, gifted support, intellectual stuff, Intensity, introspection, On friendship, personal growth, personal issues, selective mutism | 5 Comments

Marriage, motherhood and the philosophical mind…

Posted on July 15, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

I am hoping I could generate some input regarding a person’s intense need for philosophical inquiry and making room for a personal life. What I’m referring to is the endless struggle between feeding the intellectual needs and, being a social … Continue reading →

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The journey continues.

Posted on July 6, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

I’ve been stuck in awareness but no growth, hung suspended in time, grappling with the past and the impact on my present. I have had MANY revelations as to why I’m stuck. Stumbling on the concept that I probably have … Continue reading →

Posted in existentialism, gifted adults, gifted children, gifted support, incompleteness, intellectual stuff, Intensity, On friendship, overexcitabilities, personal growth, personal issues, Writing, Yalom | Leave a comment

From here to there

Posted on May 7, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

A good friend once told me When the pain of staying the same is worse than the pain of changing, people change. The pain of staying the same IS worse than the pain of changing. I am not sure of … Continue reading →

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The Divided Self

Posted on May 4, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

I found a fascinating quote today while reading The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by psychologist R.D. Laing. Our civilization represses not only ‘the instincts’, not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one dimensional … Continue reading →

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Our place in the Cosmos

Posted on April 14, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

Lyrics [Narrator] With every century Our eyes on the universe have been opened anew We are witness To the very brink of time and space [Robert Jastrow] We must ask ourselves We who are so proud of our accomplishments What … Continue reading →

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There’s that faith thing again

Posted on April 9, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

Just when I think that I can not resolve some of my lack of deep conviction in the existence of God, because I’m too rational, too analytical, too scientific, a friend of mine tells me he was reading Miguel de … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, incompleteness, intellectual stuff, introspection, personal growth, poetry, synchronicity, Writing | 10 Comments