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The Last Flip of the Perpetual Calendar
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
It’s Monday, August 2, 2010. And I just flipped a page of the perpetual calendar for the fifteenth time since I started sabbatical in May 2009. This is the last flip, for soon I move out of this ...
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Final Summary of Sabbatical Activities
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... Life Practice Group. May 4 World Spirituality: Spirit’s Next Move, a 14 week Tele-seminar Series May 14-18 Attended five-day yoga teacher-training workshop with Beryl Bender Birch, College ...
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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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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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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... listen, it’s not just the wisdom traditions of the world’s great religions that teach this lesson. I was watching Cesar’s Milan’s The Dog Whisperer when this email from KB came in last night. I watch ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... a party, a friend interrupts your explanation of a relationship challenge to say, “It’s all a mystery, Lezlie. Some things you can’t figure out. Just stop.” - The tiniest details and events of your ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... of those new to yoga who think they need a degree of agility to do the poses. No, he says. You adjust as necessary. You breathe. You get focused. Anyone can do the practice because it’s your private ...
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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)
... a tough place. We fall back on the old story of not being good enough to do this. It’s amazing how hard we can be on ourselves, harder than we would ever be on a fellow writer. Eventually, we can get ...
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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)
... life of this dog of privilege. It’s fun, fun, fun. One of the most delightful sections comes toward the end of the “Italy” chapter when the family goes on an outing to Vallombrosa. Elizabeth is ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
... space I’m in give me an opportunity to do that? Can I believe that it’s possible to make headway, instead of lose ground in this time? Can I believe that there are un-imagined potentials that I can step ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... to put any weight on my right foot. I can tell you that for two weeks, I’ve been fairly pre-occupied with Maslow’s deficiency needs. It’s hard getting food together. Just getting a carton of juice out ...
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Devotion to the Practice
(Journal/Journal)
... it’s not a matter of making a marketing plan, or deciding how many clients we need to make a living. It’s a matter of focusing completely on ourselves and our willingness to go deep into our practice. ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
It’s been four days since I fell down the stairs to the landing, sprained my ankle, broke my foot, and changed my life. My life. It was getting to be so nice. The horror of the ...
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The Right Tool for the Right Job
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
It’s spring in Florida and the garden centers are packed with frenzied gardeners eager to get into their yards for new planting. I want to be right there with them buying colorful annuals, getting ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... So as I sat among the other members of the group, all of whom consider themselves first and foremost writers, I kept asking: what is my dharma, my calling, my purpose, my contribution? It’s a perennial ...
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Adore
(My Writing/Poetry)
... she most wants. You must now this: she has forgotten this ancient seed. Sometimes she dreams about it. Other times, she thinks it’s the beginning of a story she made up. And when faint memories ...
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February 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... a course together. It’s been almost seven years since Ginger died. Ginger was a beautiful bichon frise with whom I shared almost seventeen years. For four years after she died, I couldn’t even bear the ...
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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. ...