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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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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... pressed to name JUST ONE (nit-picker), I would choose No Boundary. Read it and be transformed. ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... laugh, tell him your plans.” If you’ve been checking in with my blog, you know that things have not gone as planned—surprise! In fact, in the first month of the sabbatical, I had to start adjusting ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... Twelve Doors on its way is making sure it gets a good look-over from copy-editor Terry Godbey. Then I’ll print some copies just so I have concrete proof that I actually did something with my sabbatical ...
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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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Remorse, TN
(My Writing/Poetry)
... at the time. The good part of me knows that devotion begets love, patience begets compassion, prayer begets peace. But that didn’t happen. So finally, on a night when everything seemed just ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... “I don't know,” I said, “but they just keep coming.” But of course I do know where writing prompts come from: they come out of my life. Almost all of them. Now I may be revealing more than I should here, ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... maybe I should just stop. But I know the practice goes on, no matter what condition I am in. This is the amazing lesson of yoga. And though I’ve heard this lesson and spoken this lesson over ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... is using poison as medicine. Instead of trying to get rid of a difficulty--be it pain, conflict, disappointment--just breathe it in. Accept it as a part of you and have compassion for it. Connect with ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... work, a physical/health challenge before you. Hold that obstacle in your heart and try to soften around it. Can you stop resisting this obstacle, just for a minute? Can you see it as a friend instead ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... Guest House,” and many of the more obscure ones. Just a lovely book. A perfect wedding gift. - good commentary about yoga: “We think of repetition as deadening, but in a spiritual practice, repetition, ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
... into in this time? Can I really consider something brand new coming out of this? Instead of just biding my time until the foot heals, filling space with movies and reading and visits from kind friends. ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... trapped in this house and expending enormous energy just getting to the bathroom. Abraham Maslow is known for his articulation of hierarchy of needs that drive human behavior. The most basic need ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... different for months to come. I couldn’t move from the landing for a long time. I was in shock. Not just from the pain of the break, but from the eradication of a plan. From the point on, everything ...
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The Right Tool for the Right Job
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... just skim the rake over the mulch, and it pulls only the leaves and other loose debris, leaving the mulch undisturbed. And it reaches deftly a good foot beyond my own reach, giving me easy access to shady ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... student who, of course, is doing just that. But so am I! For better or worse, I have made my own life the subject of my writing. And over the last few years, that writing has been very helpful in clarifying ...
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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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Get quiet, soften, a way will open.
(Influences/Influences)
... Just this morning, I read an inspiring article on uncertainty by Elizabeth Matti-Namgyel in the current issue of Tricycle magazine. In it, she begins with a small story about rock climbing, and ...
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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)
... of this issue is to cal us to a “way of living less caught up with self and more about just being—finding relaxation and awareness to be our natural state.” The Buddhist path provides us with approaches ...