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March, Listening

I don’t know how to listen to myself, and so I don’t know how to listen to others, so desperate am I to be heard. – A letter to Sophia The biggest question that came out of my February practice was:...

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Source Code

I am spiraling down, down, down into the ascension. I am disoriented. I have merged with nothing. I am standing inside the source and I can’t understand anything. I never pack right for this trip, I...

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Sweet Weeping

For Keri One hundred yards back, looking towards the clearing, I see the drops gleaming. Shining all the way down. It is dry. My coat rubs electricity out of the air and sends it snapping out my...

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Still Listening

The reflection piece for my March practice of Listening is taking a long time. I keep working on it, and working on it, and it’s not right yet. It doesn’t feel right yet – something is amiss, but I...

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Everyone Talks in the New Conversation

“I still treat email to me as though it were considered correspondence. And I feel as though I have a responsibility to answer my correspondence. But I think that as we become more sophisticated, we’ll...

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July, Perspecitve

Intention I am halfway through my year-long project of Living Practice, and it feels like a good time to work on Perspective. Perspective is among the more rational values I value, one that embraces...

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Immaculate Capitulation

I could linger here for hours, sinking deeper into the busy stillness, that unwinds when I bed down in the sweet grasses, and watch the world work. Beetles, blossoms, birdsong. The swollen heat of...

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August, Acceptance

Arguably, as a doorway to space, this should have been the first value I cultivated. But the truth is, Acceptance takes a lot of courage, and through some combination of building that up, and being...

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The Intimacy of Proximity and The Privilege of Distance

The Power of Presence I have watched my relationship with my children evolve from me as a frustrated, ineffective power-broker, to one where I listen more, listen differently, and am less invested in...

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