thinking thursday.
Please note: A space has opened up in my upcoming Life is a Verb retreat (April 15-18 in Asheville, NC) because of a cancellation due to illness. I would love to have you there! mind :: my brain and yours Teen suicide warning signs But young brains don't work the …
Sneak peek…
Just got a sneak peek at the cover for one of my books coming out this fall: Four Word Self Help: simple wisdom for complex lives (Sept 2010). My other book this year will be Creative is a Verb: if you're alive, you're creative (Nov 2010). Sometimes we make life …
poetry wednesday : out of the marvelous as we have known it
What would St Patrick's Day be without an Irish poet? The Annals (more formerly known as "Lightenings") -Seamus Heaney The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the air. The anchor dragged along behind so deep It …
found-art tuesday : make up a holiday for someone
Tess is a dedicated cataloger of her life. We find notes and lists and stories everywhere. Today after she went to school, John found an index card near her Spongebob breakfast bowl with a checklist on it, written in orange marker: breakfast, lunch, dinner, bed. BED was by far the …
mindful monday : mindful eating
Back in my mid-twenties, when my life felt out of control and I went on a one-month retreat, each time we sat down to eat we were instructed to be aware of what we were eating, where it came from, and the people who prepared it and to be thankful …
Are you a writer? An artist? A human being?
I get a lot of questions about how to write a book. Always happy to talk about writing, but I thought I'd answer some of them just to get the conversation started. Seems what I said about writing can also be applied to living.
sunday sounds : the greatest thing you’ll ever learn…
…is just to love and be loved in return.
simple action saturday : sit in the sun
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. -Annie Dillard Find some sun. Or some wind. Or rain for that matter. Sit in it. No sun where you are? Yes there is. Just get outside–no matter what the weather–for ten minutes. Every single day.
how to write (a book). a wee rant.
photo by Carol Gage Andrews I get a lot of emails from people asking how to write (a book). So I thought perhaps an essay outlining my thoughts on the topic might be helpful—to me, in order to clarify the thoughts I have about writing—and, perhaps, to others. (You don’t …
thinking thursday.
mind :: my brain and yours Can teachers be taught to teach better? (Thanks to Connie Knapp) Happiness by proxy. "Consulting the experience of another person, a surrogate, in deciding whether something will make you happy…. They discovered that the direct experience of another person trumps the conjecturing of our …
