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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)
Lezlie Laws Summary of Sabbatical Activities May 2009-July 2010 MAY 2009-JULY 2010 > Intensive immersion in classical ashtanga yoga (the eight-limbed path). Time requirement ...
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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)
... quite sure it needs more. It could be stronger. It could say more clearly what I want to say. It could be more elegant. But the truth is, not only am I out of time, I am out of the emotional energy ...
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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)
... of writing workshops, it's my job. Every week, I spend time with writers who seek inspiration and support from each other. And they also seek new and provocative topics to respond to. “Where do your prompts ...
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27219
(Journal/Journal)
... and well being and his great website called "I took the vow." I took the vow. I was number 27,219. Will you? I hope so. Even if you don't have the time to listen to the interview, ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... and for the first time maybe really got how that attitude is destructive and very un-yogic. I’ll try to explain. I started yoga late in life—age 55. I have never been very flexible, so the practice, ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... calm, accepting, happy even. The next day I’m anxious, confused, directionless, filled with doubts. Everyone has a solution. Who to believe? What is right? So after a year (a life time) of trudging ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... ease, relaxation, and spaciousness. These have seemed to be the antidote to a lifetime of hurry and striving and focus and effort. So I thought this year would be a sort of trial run for retirement. ...
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Dispatched
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... I am one full year later, still working on it, still troubled by it. It will not be dispatched. It is with me all the time. It pops itself rudely into conversations with mere acquaintances. It leers ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
When I teach a yoga class, sometimes I begin by asking participants to focus for a minute on an obstacle they're facing. I say, this may be a person you’re in relationships with, an issue at ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... Teaching Lost Selves to Speak I know I’ve said it a lot, but it really is amazing how the very thing you need to read finds it’s way to you at exactly the time you need to read it. Such is the case ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
... me to reflect on. 1. What is the foot trying to say to me? 2. What is this space of time that I now have here to teach me? 3. How can this time be spent for my highest good? 4. Instead of resisting ...
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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)
... forward to Beryl Bender Birch being here for a five-day workshop in May, and I was going to take over more classes during that time so Theresa and Calvin could focus on the workshop. The book was coming ...
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The Right Tool for the Right Job
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... me happy every time I use it. As I was clearing debris this afternoon with my handy-dandy hand rake, I remembered my Dad saying, “Half of being a good carpenter is having the right tool to do the ...
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"There's always a five-year-old!"
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... a more disciplined writer. Her reason was that she had a five-year old, and thus it would be impossible to shape time in the ways he was suggesting. And he replied immediately, “Yes! There’s always ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... at the Stairs, says to the protagonist: “Don’t make your own life your project in your own life: a complete waste of time.” We all laughed at that, especially because the protagonist is a young college ...
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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 ...