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inside space: August 2015
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Buddhist blog on writing, photography, teaching, life - with the aim to open inside spaces. Thursday, August 27, 2015. A couple of days after I got back from California, last week, someone asked me if I felt like I was back in Madison yet. Id been in Europe, then Texas, then California, gone for over a month of the summer, which is not unusual for me. Links to this post. Friday, August 07, 2015. The Power of Narrative. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Power of Narrative.
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inside space: Fear of Dying
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Buddhist blog on writing, photography, teaching, life - with the aim to open inside spaces. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Bandaged heart graffiti by Beni, Paris 2015. Travel takes me close to death, but not in the way you would think. Because I spend so much of the rest of the time - 90% of it - convinced that I am not going to die or lose anyone else I love. The panic does not come from the truth of death. The panic comes from the gap of denial. You are right. June will die. Di will die. Bruce w...The panic...
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inside space: July 2015
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Buddhist blog on writing, photography, teaching, life - with the aim to open inside spaces. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Separating Truth from Shame. Loony Lunettes, Paris, 2015. Like a lot of people, I find it very, very tricky to engage with people who dislike me. Especially those who refuse to admit that that is the core issue, affecting their judgment of things such as my unprofessional manner. Yes, it is true that part of it relates to me wanting everyone to like me - survival skill! Links to this post.
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inside space: November 2014
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Buddhist blog on writing, photography, teaching, life - with the aim to open inside spaces. Monday, November 24, 2014. Last week in my weekly, in-person classes, the prompt was about reading. I got so many amazing responses, as I recall was the case the last time I used this prompt, two years ago. In fact, I am going to ask students to share their writings and put together a small book of them - Writers on Reading. However, one response in particular really hit all of my personal bells. Links to this post.
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inside space: Separating Truth from Shame
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Buddhist blog on writing, photography, teaching, life - with the aim to open inside spaces. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Separating Truth from Shame. Loony Lunettes, Paris, 2015. Like a lot of people, I find it very, very tricky to engage with people who dislike me. Especially those who refuse to admit that that is the core issue, affecting their judgment of things such as "my unprofessional manner.". Yes, it is true that part of it relates to me wanting everyone to like me - survival skill! Ilana is very, ve...
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inside space: June 2015
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Buddhist blog on writing, photography, teaching, life - with the aim to open inside spaces. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Ilana on a swing at a baby shower last weekend. UPDATE JUNE 25: it turns out she simply has basal cell and not melanoma. We are very relieved. Still, grateful for support and it's been a hard week! There's really no easy way to write about this. I have thought about it, cried about it. Last week, Ilana got diagnosed with melanoma. As Ilana said in her note:. The flip side - a both/and fli...
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inside space: My 3 R's
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Buddhist blog on writing, photography, teaching, life - with the aim to open inside spaces. Thursday, July 02, 2015. This word used to turn my stomach, make me want to throw all the other words out the window. When in junior high and first learning to write poetry - getting support from my English teacher, even, I indignently justified my work by saying it was right the first time. Or "Should I keep going? This harnessing involves cutting, shifting, dramatic changes, questioning the reasons we wrote it i...
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inside space: October 2014
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Buddhist blog on writing, photography, teaching, life - with the aim to open inside spaces. Thursday, October 23, 2014. Doing Something When I Needed to Do Nothing. Boy, have I had an interesting week. As in the purported Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. But this is typical for me and I settled in after a few hours on the first day,. Tuesday. A nice walk in the forest, some good planning for my upcoming program on Shambhala Online called Write Now. Looking good. Here was the real mistake...
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inside space: May 2015
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Buddhist blog on writing, photography, teaching, life - with the aim to open inside spaces. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Silohuette of Gloria Merriam, one of my mom's childhood friends, California January 2015. A spontaneous poem on Mother's Day 2015). My days of mothers cut short. Turned by the sun into tinier versions of ones. Given to most,. My mothers died at my sixth. A daughter with no mothers. Many others stepped forward. Or I called forward. One confessed she didn't feel worthy:. My boyfriend (a bore).
