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The Last Flip of the Perpetual Calendar
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... that things didn’t go the way I wanted them to go; that I didn’t accomplish what I hoped I would accomplish; that I didn’t fulfill goal six as clearly defined in my state-of-the-household letter in June ...
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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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Final Summary of Sabbatical Activities
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... DECEMBER December pretty much wiped out with health issues. I have been diagnosed with ductal carcinoma and will have surgery on Jan. 14, 2010. Things fall apart. December ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... In my last letter to you, I had an admirable list of six things I hoped to accomplish with this gift of time. And now, with the gift of hindsight, I am reminded of the saying: “If you want to make God ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... literature of all traditions. We must drop the small self’s need to be in charge, to figure things out, to manage situations. When we do, we have access to a deeper clarity, wisdom, and truth. We move ...
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Remorse, TN
(My Writing/Poetry)
... every morning at dawn. The good part of me knew I could stay and things would be just fine. But she wasn’t around when I backed out of the driveway, rolled down the windows, stepped hard on the accelerator, ...
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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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Mahamudra
(Influences/Influences)
... that is, how do we experience things? And if we can find a practice, a way of being, that allows us to be peaceful about our immediate experience, it seems we really can drop much of our suffering. ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... Try out a new lifestyle and see if it fits, if it works for me at this stage of life. But as I’ve said elsewhere, things haven’t gone the way I planned. That’s an understatement. This year has been ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... is just an obvious manifestation of a whole array of disappointments. Who wouldn’t be disappointed to have a broken foot? Not fun, for sure, but a relatively minor obstacle in the larger scheme of things. ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... Sun, May 2010 3. EnlightenNext: The Magazine for Evolutionaries, Spring/Summer 2010. (notes below) 4. When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodrin (see notes in journal 4/29/10) ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
... this new space, I will slow down and in spite of that, more things will happen, get done, come about, open up, unfold. In this new space, things will be easy while busy, effortless but productive, calm ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... in my life. Welwood says, Human life always entails some kind of unsatisfactoriness or pain—the pain of birth, old age, sickness, and death; the pain of trying to hold on to things that change; the ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... question, isn’t it? And when I was still enough, and real enough, I came to see myself characterized most by my gathering skills. Like the border collie I’ve written about earlier, I like to gather things ...
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February 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... clear on some of the small changes I can make to eradicate deleterious food and eating habits. Love Michael Pollan. 4. The Ten Things You Need to Eat, by Anahad O’Connor 5. Yoga Journal, March ...
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Get quiet, soften, a way will open.
(Influences/Influences)
... fruitful, learn that it opens new and surprising options for action. It has been so hard for me to relax my grip on wanting to know, wanting to figure things out, wanting to have a plan. Mattis-Namgyel ...
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I Think I'm Depressed
(Influences/Influences)
... be gleaned from previous posts.) These things will cause a girl to lay low for a while. And so I have—laid low. I’ve retreated into my little cave to lick my wounds, to set aside my plans, to drop desire ...
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January 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... “we become less driven by unexamined motivations to put ourselves first, to control things to assuage our fear, to always proffer our brilliant answer.” This sentence seems to describe so many of us as ...
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The Worst Thing About Living Alone
(My Writing/Poetry)
... to dance alone is one of the hardest things you will do in your life. ...
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The Thicket of Views and Opinions
(Journal/Journal)
... hundreds of thousands of people being born and dying every day. Where does each life come from? How did it start? What changes are ahead for us? There are so many things we don’t know. Feel the truth ...