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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... my Yoga and Writing students. 3. No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth, by Ken Wilber. This is the last book of my sabbatical, and what a perfect one on which to end ...
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Final Summary of Sabbatical Activities
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... Attended Wellness and Writing Conference in Atlanta Presented 90-minute workshop on RCC study. October 31 > Attended an all-day workshop given by author Richard Goodman ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... to know about it. If I could jump up and down in jubilation, I would. Between writing the book, and writing about writing the book, and life events, and writing about life events, I feel like ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... months. I’ll do my part in guiding this book to its rightful place in the world, but for now, I have no idea what that should be. I have a pathological fear of promoting my own writing, so it ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
Introduction to Twelve Doors, a book of prompts for writers Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. — Chinese proverb I give a lot of writing prompts. As a facilitator ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... how they are also big lessons for the writer. Difficulties abound in any writer’s practice. We face hard places in the writing and convince ourselves we just can’t fix it. Resistance to the piece builds, ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... it’s ludicrous isn’t it? I’m embarrassed just writing this. But today comes Pema Chodron on the four maras, and I see disappointment sitting with me here in the living room. This is the elephant ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
... anything to be glad about this turn of events. But the truth is, not everything is lost. In fact, I have gained something really precious: time. I’m always writing about wanting more time, and now ...
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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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Devotion to the Practice
(Journal/Journal)
... our deep work in the world without overlaying the issue of money onto the work. For her, the work is her gardens. For me, the work is teaching yoga (in a variety of forms: yoga asana, yoga & writing ...
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The Right Tool for the Right Job
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... a workshop that will introduce you to a new “tool,” a process that will help you find purposeful intention for your writing and develop the depth of concentration necessary for clear and creative writing ...
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"There's always a five-year-old!"
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
Jeffrey Davis, yogi and writing teacher, tells the story of a participant in a workshop he was conducting who complained she couldn’t really undertake the “practice” he was advocating for becoming ...
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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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January 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... travel writing was pretty boring, lacking any beauty in the description of what must have been remarkable scenery. But the worst part of this book was the fact that the entire story is told in ...
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The Last Issue Of Poets & Writers Magazine
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... I with advice on writing. And I have ignored the calls for manuscripts in the back of the magazine for years. Still, I’ve held on to the subscription out of I-don’t-know-what: duty, or guilt, or shame. ...
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Day Eight of 2010 Retreat
(Journal/Journal)
... most of the week, and I decided to push through another day of silence. In fact, the week has been pretty miserable. Hard to meditate. Hard to sleep. Not much writing happening. ...
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Best Laid Plans. . .
(Journal/Journal)
It’s the second day of my annual retreat, and I rise early to read The Wise Heart and do some writing. I had wanted to finish my Wise Heart posts before the end of the year. Alas, the soul ...
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Two Buddhas in One Day
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... Like a bad love affair, I have held on to this painful writing relationship for years, sometimes being passionately in love and other times packing my bags and swearing I would leave for good. But I ...
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Hating Writing/Loving to Have Written
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... which is what he is trying to do—write a screenplay about his life. It’s an odd book, not quite self-help, not quite memoir, not quite a book on writing techniques—but somehow it’s working. Miller writes ...
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More on Running to the Mountain
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... in order and he’s sitting outside at his picnic table surrounded by the glorious vista of upstate New York, he realizes that running to the mountain was not about writing the book at all, but about reclaiming ...