Some people say it better
Like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIN6qbtNjec
Love (bet you didn’t see a love post coming)
A dear friend and colleague was cleaning out his office before changing jobs and gave me this tiny little book called “The Art of Eternal Love.” Get your mind out of the gutter. It’s about infinite love as a practice: focusing your love on that thing that exists beyond us and in everyone, and about…
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How thoughts arise
I’ve been thinking lately about where thoughts come from–if you read this article while you’re reading that novel and watch this documentary during the same time period vs being exposed to the same three things further apart from one another or in a different order, how does that affect what in particular you latch onto…
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Teach Myself
Teach myself to wait. Teach myself to talk about what’s on the news. Teach myself to be less raw, to chafe less at memories. Teach myself to do nothing, say nothing. Teach myself not to want you to give me that look. Teach myself to finish what I’ve started. Teach myself to clean the house…
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Advice from the Wise (and a video)
I’m procrastinating. By doing stuff like this: Dorm Room. I read my advice to myself (previous post) to the veteran writers in the workshop group I wrote it in last week and SGT Linsey Siu sent me this in a message afterwards. A list of quotes by very accomplished people (who are extraordinarily wise). My favorite…
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Advice to Myself (you can take it too, if it resonates)
Going on a trip. Seeing beautiful people and going to a poetry workshop. Sometimes being in a new place makes me nervous, sometimes being around people who are more accomplished than I am makes me forget my gratitude for all the beauty I have, sometimes my fears keep me rooted in a spot–literally and creatively.…
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Parallel Universes
Last weekend we watched a documentary about how the universe is expanding, and some scientists believe that it’s expanding without curvature–expanding infinitely, never to touch back upon itself. What this means (according to this documentary) is that every eventuality possible in your life has occurred–every choice you’ve made, the alternate choice was made by some…
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Some good shit’s too long to Tweet
I’ve been reading this collection of Adrienne Rich’s essays on motherhood for months now. I pick it up, read a few pages, my worldview shifts, I put it down and look at everything through a different lens. It’s a battered, flagged, highlighted, marked up book; I have pages of notes inside it. And this, from…
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I want to post something
to speak to the spark in the people who made today beautiful, to thank you for your laughter, your honesty, for the things you do for me and the things you do for each other that free my hands to do for the new people who arrive or the ones who are struggling a little…
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