Marathon(s) update
Friday, December 4th, 2009 Posted in My Life | 3 Comments »Well, the writing marathon, NaNoWriMo, is finally over. I and my friends Zach and Margreet all won, which is to say, we completed the challenge of writing a 50,000-word rough draft of a novel. Now, some friends have enquired about when ...
My Other Marathon
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in Books, My Life | 5 Comments »Besides the marathon I'll be running in March 21, I've signed up for another one of sorts as well. This one starts in just three-and-a-half hours. It's called National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. I'm not ...
In Training
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 Posted in Books, My Life | 4 Comments »I’m in training. For a marathon! Yeah, you read that right, and it still sounds as unbelievable to me as it does to anyone reading this who knows me. Sure, I wrote earlier about starting a running program; I began ...
Back to Basics
Monday, September 21st, 2009 Posted in Spirituality | 17 Comments »In an earlier post, I wrote that most people learn to see the world from the ideas they’re taught, instead of “the undeniable aspects of their own experience.” Yes, there are undeniable aspects of our experience. Do you want to ...
If the world didn’t suck…
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Humor | 5 Comments »I saw a bumper sticker this morning which said: Remember: if the world didn’t suck, you’d fall off.
Purpose
Sunday, July 19th, 2009 Posted in Spirituality | 18 Comments »I mentioned in my previous post that I'm beginning to have a renewed sense of purpose after three-and-a-half years of not really having one. At that time, I had an momentary experience of nothingness, which I've called "the suck" or ...
A few updates
Sunday, July 5th, 2009 Posted in My Life | 3 Comments »Sorry for my long absence. Really, I am. A lot has been going on: I lost Talbot in late April. He was hit by a car, and I felt so bad about his death, that I really couldn't write about it ...
Consciousness as an animation of Spirit
Sunday, May 10th, 2009 Posted in Spirituality | 3 Comments »I've seen this before, but haven't thought of it for a long time. Very true.
Re-Centering
Sunday, April 5th, 2009 Posted in My Life | 5 Comments »A good friend of mine told me that my mother's death would change me. He was right. I've found that I'm re-prioritizing things in my life. I'm wanting to integrate into my life more of the things that I've neglected ...
Her Passing
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Love, My Life | 10 Comments »My mom passed away Sunday evening. She had been hanging on, despite the fact that all of us had individually encouraged her to let go. However, when all three of us--my brother, father and myself--did so together, and assured her ...
