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The Last Flip of the Perpetual Calendar
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... glorious white space I’ve inhabited this past year. For fifteen months, I’ve read, written, studied, reflected—and I’ve sat in silence for hours on end. But the luxury of this sort of living is coming ...
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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... to convince any reader that the man is on to something. This book is required reading for our incoming first-year students at Rollins, and I’ll be interested to see how they respond to it. In the ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... sabbatical: time to read, write, and study at a leisurely pace. Surely this is one of the greatest benefits of being a college professor, and I stepped into the process with high hopes and lofty goals. ...
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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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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)
... of books I’ve been reading, activities I’ve engaged in, emotions I’ve grappled with, people I’ve adored, disappointments I’ve endured. Life seems like an answer to a whole series of cosmic questions these ...
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May 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
1. Yoga Journal, June 2010. 2. Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body “Do not let another person tell you how you should be relating. Instead, let that person ...
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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)
... all day. In my morning reading today, though, I realized one particular emotion undergirds everything I’ve been feeling about this life event, and that is disappointment. It came to me so ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
Morning Reading: 1. Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation, by John Welwood. (notes below) 2. Shambhala ...
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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)
Time goes so much more slowly when you have not much to do. Since the foot injury, I can do very little. I can meditate. I can read. I can watch TV or a movie. I can write. I can sit on the ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... surgery last summer. I can sit for about 30 minutes at the computer, then I have to move to get my leg propped up. I can sit in the chaise and read, but I can’t manage to bring anything to drink up the ...
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The Right Tool for the Right Job
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... spots under shrubs that would be otherwise difficult. It truly makes getting ready to plant, which is, after all, the really fun part of gardening, so much easier. It’s a great gardener’s tool. Makes ...
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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, ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... yoga and writing. For five days we practice yoga, pranayama, and meditation, write to Jeffrey’s prompts, and engage in lots of good conversation about literature, how to read it, and how to create it. ...
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February 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
Morning Reading (lectio divina): 1. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha, by Tara Brach 2. Telecourse on Integral Evolution of Consciousness. ...
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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 ...