Tea and Breath
Thinking about the human condition -- writing, tea, big sky mind and all things poetic
and so it begins (National Poetry Month, that is) ~
So much poetry! So little time! I have a couple of links for you to start off National Poetry Month, and an assignment (š). First, here's a short post I did recently for the wonderful literary journal Nimrod. It looks at the differences between poets & prose...
read moreMr. Rogers, fire, and other Buddhist thoughts ~
I want to be more like Mr. Rogers. I want to be able to move beyond anger, my personal Buddhist mind poison. Known as kleshas to learned practitioners (and mind poisons to the rest of us), anger is what Iām both best at (wrathful compassion, addressed here & here,...
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what I’m learning about happiness from gardening ~
As I've mentioned previously, I'm working on being happier this year. Not that I wasn't pretty happy last year. I just want it to be more...conscious this year, I guess. More intentional, since last year's was in large part the result of non-repeatable actions. Moving...
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tea and happiness ~
The journaling project I'm doing to 'practice happiness' asked, this past week, what currently makes me happy. I had a lengthy list -- more than 20 things! I guess that's good (or else I'm woefully shallow...) One, of course, was tea. I try to have tea every...
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What to write about
Hereās a post from a blog I wrote at the end of the year for Nimrod Journal. Itās my attempt to answer the question most of us who write hear so often: what do you write about? How do you find your ideas?Ā You can read it here. In the meantime, are you writing? Do you...
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happiness, journals, projects, et al. ~
I made a commitment more than a year ago -- 89 weeks, but who's counting? -- to keep a daily journal. Morning pages, as Julia Cameron calls them in several of her books, most recently It's NeverĀ Too Late To BeginĀ Again.Ā Verrry quickly they became daily pages, and then...
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