Tea and Breath
Thinking about the human condition -- writing, tea, big sky mind and all things poetic
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
Here’s a post from a blog I wrote at the end of the year for Nimrod Journal. It’s 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? 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 Never Too Late To Begin Again. Verrry quickly they became daily pages, and then...
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Thanksgiving: big and little things ~
This year was a very different Thanksgiving for us. We're in a new home, in a new (to us!) state, and we tried new things. Like a heritage turkey (mixed reviews), and no sweet potatoes (I missed them!). And bubbly for the drinkers instead of eggnog. And a follow-up...
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A time for gratitude ~
Gratitude: at a time when my heart is often cracked yet again by the news, and when much of our country seems to be mad with hatred, it’s hard sometimes to remember how much there is to be grateful for. Even though I keep a gratitude journal, noting down my many...
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