January 23, 2012 – 9:20 pm
When I wrote ‘your passion is not enough’ I knew I was beginning to say something, not finishing. I was opening a conversation with myself and with you. Today I was walking home from a visit with a friend, listening to Zen Howl, by Natalie Goldberg. Natalie said, “Talent is like a water table under [...]
At the most painful, confusing time of my life – in those months after the killings in Afghanistan that I referred to in my last post – I found the teachings of Pema Chodron who gently encouraged me to relax and lean in towards my own heartbreak, seeing it as a state of presence and [...]
February 12, 2011 – 11:57 am
…is that life will sometimes just expand to fill it. I decided not to go to South Africa because I knew I needed more space in my life. Every time I sat still long enough to really notice what was going on in my body last year I got the same message: I need more [...]
January 12, 2011 – 7:52 pm
Remember how I decided to try to raise US$20,000 for HIV/AIDs projects in South Africa? How that was about the same amount that I earned in 2009? How the whole idea scared the sh#t out of me because I didn’t know if I could do it, and because I hate trying something, especially publicly, and [...]
November 6, 2010 – 2:40 pm
This is the second in a short series of lessons I’ve learned while living lately… (the title to this one comes with loving thanks to Mr Leonard Cohen, who sang me to the moon and back when I saw him live in concert this week) Messing up is sometimes the crack the lets the light [...]
