Marathon (and other) updates
Monday, March 8th, 2010 Posted in Language, My Life | No Comments »I won't be running in the Shamrock Marathon this month. I had some substantial problems with my left Achilles' tendon, and after some rest, a lot of physical therapy, a couple of shoe changes, and wearing an ankle brace, ...
Seeds
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 Posted in Nonduality, Poetry, Spirituality | 7 Comments »The mightiest redwood grew from a small seed in a cone, and that, in turn, sprang from a seed from a cone from another redwood, and so on. For generations, centuries, millennia. Every seed stores not only the raw potential of ...
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.
