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The Last Flip of the Perpetual Calendar
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... to an end. Am I sad? Am I sorry it’s over? Am I uninterested in returning to teaching? No to all of those questions. But something does feel kind of odd. It could be sense of disappointment: ...
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Final Summary of Sabbatical Activities
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... Attended Wellness and Writing Conference in Atlanta Presented 90-minute workshop on RCC study. October 31 > Attended an all-day workshop given by author Richard Goodman ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
Hello dear friends. It’s July, and time for Lezlie’s annual state-of-the-household letter--and man has a lot happened since June 2009. You may remember that last May I began a fifteen-month ...
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June Reading 2010
(Influences/Influences)
1. Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm, by Jon Katz 2. Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, by Barbara Marx Hubbard 3. ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... it would take to continue re-working it. In fact, I’m exhausted. So, for better or for worse, I’m kicking the kid out of the house. He’s been hanging around here way too long, and it’s time ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... this show not just because I want to get a dog, but because it offers some of the best psychological instruction to be found. In this segment, Cesar was dealing with an exceedingly aggressive Chihuahua ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... life—You observe a cat sitting on top of the fence underneath the tabebuia tree, staring intently at the upper limbs, body coiled for action. It's all fodder for the writing mill. Learn to ...
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Mahamudra (The Great Seal)
(My Writing/Poetry)
... window and see the moon suspended in the live oak. It inches its way across bare branches, and light diminishes; my mind churns, yearnings rise. I want to anticipate tomorrow’s meeting, ...
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Mahamudra
(Influences/Influences)
... Mahamudra (The Great Seal) The most future I’m going to let myself have is tonight. I put my head on this pillow and say my prayers. I smell the clean sheets and stretch my long ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... life, and we enjoyed a few moments sharing our very mixed feelings about living with a physical challenge. We agreed : Deep lessons hide within every difficulty. But as I drove away from the studio ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... that my mind can’t fathom? At the root of all this reading is the sense that somewhere out there I’m going to get the Big Secret. I’m going to find the methods that will release me from feeling ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... this last part is what she means by “awakened energy.” The event, propels us to a new space where insight, wisdom, openness reside. These are big lessons in life, for sure. But I’m also seeing ...
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Dispatched
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... to spiff it up and mark a thick, black line through it on the sabbatical “to do” list. I wanted to move on to the next project. A couple of months of work, I thought. No problem. And now, here ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... of an enemy, just for a moment? How do you do that, they ask? I say, stand as straight as you can. Lengthen the spine as if you were trying to push the top of your head straight up to ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... Sun, May 2010 3. EnlightenNext: The Magazine for Evolutionaries, Spring/Summer 2010. (notes below) 4. When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodrin (see notes in journal 4/29/10) ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... my activity. I realize that, before the accident, I lived much of my life in the body. Working in the yard. Doing yoga. Teaching yoga. Biking. Walking. Training with Anthony. A huge part ...
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Devotion to the Practice
(Journal/Journal)
Becky and I met today to talk about the future, our goals and intentions, and our deeper mission. We strive to answer the question, “What are you doing with your life?” We both committed ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... No biking. No swimming. No walking down Park Avenue to meet a friend for dinner. A full and active life brought to a halt by one little pop. Now, I sit in this small house. I bump my way up ...
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The Right Tool for the Right Job
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... a view of the new begonias, lusting after the gorgeous flowering trees, fantasizing how my garden will reach new heights of beauty this year. But first, clean up! The perennial spring chore for ...
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March 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
Morning Reading (lectio divina): 1. Radical Acceptance, by Tara Brach 2. Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation, ...