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Pushing Through the Fear and Self-Doubt

February 20, 2014

A new blogger wrote the following post, which I love.  I hope you will support her efforts by clicking on the link …

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A Poet’s “Sense Sublime” – Part III, “Some Tragic Falling Off”

February 12, 2014

Language is that which gives rise to difference, to the desire for difference, and, at the same time, the desire …

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Humor, It’s Serious Stuff

February 2, 2014

Recently I’ve come across several blogs that use humor (the ironic, tongue-in-cheek, tending toward the ludic, the whimsical, the carnivalesque) …

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Our Quest for Wholeness – Part II of “Some Tragic Falling Off”

January 26, 2014

“Duality, difference, and desire presuppose “some tragic falling off” from an original (mythical or otherwise) world of undivided wholeness.” So …

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“Some Tragic Falling Off” into Difference and Desire

January 19, 2014

I’ve been thinking a lot about desire and loss lately and remembering a paper I wrote exploring this topic. It …

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Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass

January 16, 2014

Meditation at Lagunitas By Robert Hass All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old …

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Sea, Sky, Earth, Fire–My Daughter on Her Wedding Day

January 12, 2014

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
She was married beneath a cliff on the edge of the sea standing barefoot on the…

“Taste and see – I am spare”

January 9, 2014

That age-old question “who am I?” haunts us from birth. We sense we are more than what we seem to …

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Cultivating “a mind of winter”

January 2, 2014

I fell in love with Wallace Stevens’ poetry when I first read “The Idea of Order at Key West” in …

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Help Me Celebrate a Writing Milestone

December 27, 2013

I just finished writing an 85,000 word novel that I’ve been working on the past couple of years.  It feels …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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