I’ve heard it said that “life is fired at you point blank.” These days, I am learning more about this and more about my capacity to respond and my tendency to react…my ability to surrender; let go and my tendency to cling…my attachment to “expert/ all-knowing/ controlling mind” and the possibility of non-attachment in “beginner’s [...]
Archive for the ‘Obsessions’ Category
“Soul food…”
Posted in Family, Inspiration, Mothering, Obsessions, Wholeness, Writing on December 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“Organized???”
Posted in Obsessions on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yikes! Time is flying by. Last night suddenly it was 2:30 in the morning…I was doing dishes and cleaning up after a round of cookie baking. And, I didn’t write my blog–there just aren’t enough hours in the day. I love this time of year. I frequently resolve to be more organized–have yet to pull [...]
“Heavy mental…”
Posted in Family, Neural Pathways, Obsessions, Photo Canvases, Photography, Wholeness, Writing on October 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday night we drove to the City to hear a lecture by Joseph LeDoux. Unlike some recent trips to Manhattan, everything just flowed…traffic was light; we parked on the street almost in front of our destination–the Tischman Auditorium at NYU’s Vanderbuilt Hall. LeDoux is a premier neuroscientist–his focus is on fear conditioning, the “synaptic [...]
“Revelations…”
Posted in Dialogue, Friends, Obsessions, Photography, Wholeness, Writing on July 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A few days ago, I was “tagged” by my blog friend, Brian. I’m sometimes a little slow on the uptake and I’m always up for a good game…here’s how we play: *These rules must be posted before giving you the facts. * Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves. * People who are tagged [...]
“The hotter the flame…”
Posted in Inspiration, Obsessions, Photo Canvases, Photography, Wholeness, Writing on June 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This morning I awake from a vivid dream. I am in an unfamiliar pottery studio, examining some pieces that have just come out of a kiln. I’m preparing to do a firing. I look at the kiln; I’ve never used it before–it’s nothing like the one I actually used for 13 years of my life. [...]
“Don’t expect applause…”
Posted in Inspiration, Instructions, Nature, Obsessions, Pema Chodron, Photo Canvases, Photography, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Zen on June 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
One afternoon in early March, I took 40 pictures of a single rose. I lost myself in the light and the angles and the possibilities–the shutter speed, the macro adjustment. Today something similar took place. Because I do a lot my work on the telephone, I have the privilege of working at home. On beautiful [...]
“Don’t be so predictable…”
Posted in Dialogue, Inspiration, Instructions, Obsessions, Pema Chodron, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Zen on June 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have to say that there are days when I am just at loose ends. I start out with the best of intentions around creativity, productivity and the like and then for one reason or another, things go south. Today, the landslide started with a phone call at noon time…the rest of the day was [...]
“The mind must be loose…”
Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Inspiration, Instructions, Obsessions, Photo Canvases, Photography, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Zen on June 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today is the birthday of the beat poet, Allen Ginsberg–informed by Rimbaud, Blake, Whitman, Ma Rainey and Vivaldi…in love with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs. Fifteen years after Ginsberg wrote, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,” I found Howl and Other Poems in the [...]
“Laundry like a prayer…”
Posted in Family, Mothering, Obsessions, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, Writing on May 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
PENANCE AND PURIFICATION My mother hung her laundry like a prayer Tight bleached white sheets flapping in the sun shirts hung tail to tail; seams pulled, collars stretched. On windy afternoons, the clothes pole (a cross between an inside out umbrella and a television antenna) would spin and whirl—spin and whirl—possessed. Sodden monogrammed towels, boxer [...]
