I've long been a reader of the Financial Times, I have a registered account with them, and I especially keep up with their Alphaville blog ( Read more... )

2023 is my Year of the Bear,

I'm all --> this is going to be much worse than anybody expected, LOL

the neoliberal ideology
wound me up
to find
the most profitable
career
that still fit
within my then-moral
compass

yeah, you're right, responsibility laps at me like a lost pet's tongue,

laps me, like a faster runner,

lapses me,

collapses me,

this week's mantra became: "I can't do everything!"

So I stopped trying, and my world didn't end.

is that I don't have to be a priority,

fuck that ego shit

other people have other priorities, I'm not always the priority, and neither are you,

Right now T is leading his online meditation class.  During the ride back from the car dealership, we talked about my recent unbroken string of daily meditation (10 days!) and the mini-redux of my Wild Week over the weekend, after I learned that K was moving away.  A bigger dose of meditation than usual that morning, plus sad news, plus remembering ( Read more... )

Cheri Huber was one of the four Buddhist authors who most influenced me last time around.  I have several of her books in softcover.  One is called, "When You're Falling, Dive", from 2003.

In the author's prefatory note to the reader, she defines "Ego" as: the experience of feeling oneself to be separate from life, separate from the present moment, ( Read more... )

I always thought we should come up with some sort of gender-neutral singular pronouns. But, we already have those? But "it" has horrible connotations, doesn't it (no pun intended). I mean, Silence of the Lambs and all.

it rubs the lotion on its skinBut, for whatever reason I don't like "zie" and "hir" either. It's like trying to get everybody ( Read more... )

Such a cliche, but I think it is true. To move forward, you need to get past denial of the situation, first you have to admit what you are feeling or what is happening. Take your feelings out of the box, feel them, label them, try to figure out where they are coming from, let them burn oxygen in sunlight ( Read more... )