TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS: I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in a world that often appears black and white. I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts. … … I write to honor beauty … So many good reasons…
Category: Mindfulness
it doesn’t all have to be about Christmas –
I have already told you about my experience with Dani Shapiro’s excellent book on writing called Still Writing (2013). Reading it made me curious about Shapiro’s authorship, so I went on to read Devotion – a memoir (2010). I seldom read memoirs, it’s not that I actively avoid the genre – it’s just that memoirs seldom appeal…
I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun
Today I read “Dogfish” by Mary Oliver in the light of my own ongoing preoccupation with meaninglessness, fear & creative excess. Here is a short excerpt from the original poem: (…) I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a…
This is why Buddhists differentiate between Right Mindfulness (samma sati) and Wrong Mindfulness (miccha sati):
In modern business institutions stress is framed as a personal problem, and mindfulness is offered as just the right medicine to help employees work more efficiently and calmly within toxic environments. – Purser & Loy I have been studying Mindfulness and practicing meditation for a few years. For a short while I also participated in…
murmuration
While I’m writing, you can enjoy this: They call it a murmuration because witnessing it will make your heart skip a beat… recommended by Sean and what about Experimenting with Nonhuman Forms – wouldn’t it be fun?
studying blues
colour-samples from my morning walk oh hey – whats about the nasty bunker-shed?! Maggie Nelson’s narrator fell in love with blue I set out to study why Risking falling in love with the ugliest shed in the world in the process –
(creative?!???) MESS, or: a state of confusion and disorderliness
I’ve started working on a short essay on Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. the book keeps popping up in my imagination, so I’ve decided to try to write myself through my fascination. As for now I haven’t got any written stuff to show you, but this is what my desk looks like at the moment: in comparison…
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to be with what is
Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. – Pema Chödrön In response to my last post Harold said: A literal view of the particular kind of equanimity mentioned above leaves it open for the continued destruction of the earth, and thus ourselves. Its an important and interesting objection, and a problem discussed in different…
it is not in your hands to save the world
Jack Kornfield on EQUANIMITY The natural compassion and love of the heart (which cares for ourselves & others in the times of difficulties) has to be balanced with the wisdom of equanimity. If we fall too far into compassion and love without the balance of wisdom and equanimity, we can begin to be attached to…
sub rosa 