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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... what is true about me and about existence. It has been a big year for me, and Ken Wilber has been a good guide, and will continue to be. I’m sure I will spend the rest of my life reading him, and I can ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... like Iron Man, and now I’m cleared to walk on my own, though it would be an exaggeration to call my ambulation walking. It’s more of a goose-like hobble. But, the good news is my amazing body is healing ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... finished! Or rather, I should say that I am finished with the book. Journalist Donald Murray used to say that drafts are never finished, only abandoned, and that’s the case with this manuscript. I’m ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... we don't have to control life, our true and authentic selves can arise. I’m thinking we should add The Dog Whisperer to the list of perennial philosophy. Cesar Milan, modern day prophet. Truly! ...
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Mahamudra (The Great Seal)
(My Writing/Poetry)
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 legs across the bed. I turn to the ...
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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)
... though appealing to me, has been challenging. I have not been a natural to the asana practice, and I’m not especially strong. And still I’ve taken up the eight-limbed path of ashtanga yoga, believing ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
I know of no single thing more conducive to great harm than the unrestrained mind. – the Buddha I’m wondering if I need to stop reading for a while. Every day for the last twenty years or ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... tested my endurance. I would have to be an idiot not to notice the problems. Though I’m trying not to see them as problems, but rather as wake-up calls. So recently I’ve been re-reading Pema Chodron’s ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... it’s ludicrous isn’t it? I’m embarrassed just writing this. But today comes Pema Chodron on the four maras, and I see disappointment sitting with me here in the living room. This is the elephant ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... take it to be a kind of marketing tool for BTE, was really inspiring to me. Take out the word technology and I think their mission statement could be a good mission statement for a college. I’m especially ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
... anything to be glad about this turn of events. But the truth is, not everything is lost. In fact, I have gained something really precious: time. I’m always writing about wanting more time, and now ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... like I’ve been derailed in my ability to experience life fully. I feel anger and frustration at having been thrown off my course, thrown totally out of life balance. Instead of living a full life, I’m ...
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Devotion to the Practice
(Journal/Journal)
... received is that I’ve feared that I’m once again derailed from what seemed to be such a good trajectory I was on. But I’m suspecting that part of present moment lesson is to let go of my own plans for ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... of me, and I so looked forward to it. I thought I was in control. How delusional was I? But now, I’m afraid to even put words to what is ahead of me. I have nothing in my head. I have no idea how to ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... he leads us to live--and to write—into our truths. In one craft talk, Jeffrey said, “Look for patterns of personality and patterns of yearning in your characters.” I’m not a fiction writer, but I ...
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February 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... the relationship takes hold, disruption is absorbed and love abides. I’m reading these books in preparation for a course I’m going to teach spring 2011. So in a way, this is research for me as I try ...
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Get quiet, soften, a way will open.
(Influences/Influences)
I’m being told on a lot of different fronts these days that uncertainty is liberating. It’s a good thing. And I’m so trying to get that, believe that, live with that idea. But it’s really hard. ...
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I Think I'm Depressed
(Influences/Influences)
I think I’m depressed. Now this is not a label I take on easily. All my life I have been a naturally buoyant person, quick to laugh, high in energy, positive, eager, curious. And though ...
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January 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... consider this a very bad piece of writing. Even the erotic passages were bland and unmoving. Oh Laura, I’m so sorry for your affair. This reviewer's advice: skip An Italian Affair. • ...