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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... first part of the book, he really goes after our rampant consuming habits, and I think his points will hit home with our students. They did with me. “Waste fewer resources. Waste less life.” That’s ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... itself nicely, in spite of the contradictory directions I’ve received from numerous health-care professionals (most of whom make me think of Mr. Magoo as they blindly bump around a ridiculously complicated ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... and I think this book can serve as the course material for a new blended course I hope to offer this year. More details on that when I have them. For now, I’m enjoying the easing of the pressure ...
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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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Remorse, TN
(My Writing/Poetry)
... clapboard and long winter evenings and pumpkins in the side garden. I said for better or worse, but I didn’t really think there would be worse. Who does? But there was. Worse weather. Worse ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... come from?” a workshop participant asked me not long ago, after we had grappled with a particularly challenging lead. I had to think a minute because it was sort of like asking someone how she keeps breathing. ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... where I will finally be a proficient yogi. In my practice, have driven myself to get better and better, thinking that better asana would pave the way to being a better yoga teacher. I know I will never ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... coming. How are you doing with your days, I ask? The pendulum swings. I step out of my head and decide it’s time to be in experience instead of thinking about experience. Lay bricks. Dig dirt. Bake ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... the same thing to me. The idea is: don’t run from difficulty. Be fully in it with compassion. Stop fighting what is. And use the event as a way to see yourself more clearly and move forward. I think ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... until I get it. Our session consisted of returning, once again, to a deeply conditioned pattern. I'm not going to go into that here, but I just want to say that many writers/thinkers in the Integral ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... BTE is an organization dedicated to “helping expansive thinkers from success to significance through bringing innovative technologies to market for the betterment of the world.” This section, though I ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... deck and look at the garden, which is beautiful right now. I am confined to this house, and my whole life is pretty much in my head right now. Thinking, pondering, writing, wondering, obsessing: that’s ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... control. The house a mess, the yard a mess, the body a mess, the mind a mess, the life-plan toppled. Re-think who’s in charge, Lezlie. It just seems so obvious doesn’t it? But even knowing this, I ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... of the ineffable creative experience of the evolutionary impulse. So how does all this play out in my writing life? Well, here’s an example of a shift in the way I’m thinking about the book I’ve been ...
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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)
... 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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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)
... being so bad. Even though you know it’s schmaltzy, you’ll cry at the end. I think I will use this in my course next year. It’s an easy read, nicely written, and though verging on sentimental, it ...
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The Worst Thing About Living Alone
(My Writing/Poetry)
The worst thing about living alone is when you come home late afternoon on a Friday, and sit out on the back deck with a glass of wine, you sometimes think the spectacular blue streak ...
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The Last Issue Of Poets & Writers Magazine
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
I’m trying to read what I think is my last issue of Poets and Writers magazine. I didn’t renew my subscription this year, and so I’m pretty sure this is the last issue I will receive. It’s the ...