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In the midst of it all, remember you are GOOD

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

This is my last post of 2011. I’ll be back sometime in early January. This has been one heck of a year and I need a proper rest. This year I’ve sent a book off to the printers, opened a restaurant, created three new online courses, sold and bought houses and well, you get the [...]

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Desire to Inspire

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Christine Mason Miller’s latest book - Desire to Inspire: Using Creative Passion to Transform the World – is a collection of stories, exercises, images, quotes, and anecdotes from twenty extraordinary contributors, all sharing insights and experiences of how they create a meaningful life and, in turn, make a positive impact on the world. Each chapter discusses [...]

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Maybe Baby. A question.

Monday, October 24th, 2011

I’ve lived in parts of the world where women have little to no control over their fertility. So I know that as a women who can have a full sexual life and also choose whether or not to have a baby I am part of the 1%. And I’m grateful. And still. It’s no easy [...]

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What makes you feel at home?

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

This trip got me thinking about place, about this idea of ‘home’ as a physical place, a house or a town or a country even. International work tends to mess with your idea of home. It also tends to bring out the gypsy in us all. I travel well, mostly. I don’t mind airports, trains, [...]

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Where am I?

Friday, August 26th, 2011

I snuck off with my sweetheart for a mystery city getaway this week. We are eating, cycling, strolling and generally living the life. Where am I?

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Perfect summer Sunday: East Bay style

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Sunday brunch with Andrea Scher, Tara Mohr and Rachel Cole. Followed by yoga with Anodea Judith, chai at Cafe Gratitude and dinner at Burma Superstar. Perfect summer Sunday in the East Bay. Photo by Andrea Scher

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Doing the work

Friday, August 12th, 2011

This week I’m assisting at the Off the Mat, Into the World ‘Yoga, Purpose and Action’ intensive leadership training at Esalen Institute in Big Sur. I sleep in the white dome you can see in this photo, which is also where we practice and work every day. The participants in this intensive do deep work [...]

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Silent sky – New Mexico

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

In silence, under this big sky, I am trying to write. It is harder than it looks. And it helps me to be reminded that Papa Hemingway struggled too. And that Natalie Goldberg, our teacher, struggles too. If you feel alone in your struggle today, remember that under this big sky we are all struggling, [...]

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The road to Taos

Friday, August 5th, 2011

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what were the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.” [...]

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