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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... a fun and informative book. Beavan makes a serious attempt to live eco-effectively, and in the process does some really funny things. Lots of good advice, lots of good humor, and enough research ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... the book is finished. (I think I hear a wee cheer.) Or, as I said in yesterday’s blog post, I am finished with the book. Twelve Doors: Prompts for Writers is being proofed this week, and in a few days ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
It’s the last day of June, and I feel like the sabbatical is truly ended. I’ve enjoyed a full fourteen months of freedom to study, learn, and write. And, ta-da, the book is ...
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Remorse, TN
(My Writing/Poetry)
... right-- the dishes done, the house clean, the fire blazing, Debussy playing softly on the radio upstairs, you splayed on the couch and reading so intently, like the news in books really matters-- ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
Introduction to Twelve Doors, a book of prompts for writers Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. — Chinese proverb I give a lot of writing prompts. As a facilitator ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... down paths lined with the wisdom of others, maybe it’s time to trust my own connection to wisdom. This might be May’s lesson: put your books aside. Zen monk and poet Seido Ray Ronci says, “It’s only ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... quite a struggle, on many levels. With the body, the book, the heart, the self, the plans, goals, and intentions. One event after another has thrown me into chaos, shifted the very ground under my feet, ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... surface. How do I disappoint you? Let me count the ways. . . The book is not what I wish it could be. I have given up my role as writer. I have two failed marriages behind me. I do not have ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... a Psychology of Awakening. This is one of the most helpful books I’ve read this year. Welwood’s approach to therapy is infused with Buddhist practice, and it is an approach that works for me right ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... forward to Beryl Bender Birch being here for a five-day workshop in May, and I was going to take over more classes during that time so Theresa and Calvin could focus on the workshop. The book was coming ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... leaving an open book of dark poems on a library table and just walking away, never to return to those pages. I have so ignored this really good and joyful thing I do, and spent way too much time reading ...
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February 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... course. 2. A Dog Year, by Jon Katz I think this is my fourth Jon Katz book, and I just love him. I’ve been reading the books out of order, and this book tells the story of how he came to take ...
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I Think I'm Depressed
(Influences/Influences)
... I am prone to quiet periods of reflection, I have rarely, if ever, walked into the fog of depression. But recent reading has led me to think I just might be depressed. I’m reading Jon Katz’s book ...
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January 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... This was the sweetest little book! I enjoyed it. It’s not high literary reading, but it was a convincing story, told from the point of view of the dog Enzo. Not an easy thing to do, but I swear, ...
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The Last Issue Of Poets & Writers Magazine
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... room. Then I brought it upstairs to the reading room, and it became buried under a stack of books I’m reading. The other day I pulled it out from under the stack and moved it to my bedside table. Then ...
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The Thicket of Views and Opinions
(Journal/Journal)
... end of the chapter twenty-three of The Wise Heart is called “Don’t Know Mind” and it’s probably yet another example of this book offering me exactly what I need at the very moment I need it. This will ...
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December 09 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... See blog on this book at www.wiseheartway.com/ 2. Tricycle Magazine, Dec. 2009. 3. The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, by Thich Nhat Hanh. ...
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Best Laid Plans. . .
(Journal/Journal)
... are questionable. I cannot tell you how this has shaken my confidence. Second disappointment and alteration to Lezlie’s plans for the sabbatical: the book stalls out. Comes to a crashing halt, ...
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Two Buddhas in One Day
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... I reminded God that I am miserable trying to write this book. I thought my purpose in life was to be joyful. And I asked for a sign that I should just stop doing something that makes me so unhappy. ...
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Hating Writing/Loving to Have Written
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... which is what he is trying to do—write a screenplay about his life. It’s an odd book, not quite self-help, not quite memoir, not quite a book on writing techniques—but somehow it’s working. Miller writes ...