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Apr
02
to be a restless searcher

to be a restless searcher

My Writers Studio colleague Lisa Bellamy often describes the “healthy jealousy” that arises when a writer encounters work that excites
4 min read
Mar
19
on picking and choosing

on picking and choosing

Maxwell’s Demon, a being postulated by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in his 1871 book Theory of Heat, plays
2 min read
Mar
12
what is wisdom?

what is wisdom?

Since last summer I’ve been a student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College.
3 min read
Aug
21
anatman

anatman

In March and April, I’d dream that we had come to the lake, and in my dreams I’d
2 min read
Feb
07
cracks in the labyrinth

cracks in the labyrinth

In the episode “Where There Is a Will” of This American Life, producer David Kestenbaum wrestles with the possibility that
2 min read
Jan
24

the garden of forking paths

This Tuesday at last I got my hands on a book I had waited years to read: Agency, the sequel
3 min read
Sep
27
tbr

tbr

When I told a friend that I long to create a spacious container (i.e., an orderly home and routines)
1 min read
Sep
06
paying attention to dreams

paying attention to dreams

Long ago, before I took up Zen practice, I considered taking up witchcraft. Old longings stirred in me as I
2 min read
Aug
30

staying on topic

I started reading Pattern Recognition last Thursday evening and finished reading Zero History, the last novel in the Blue Ant
1 min read
Aug
23
feeling my way out of the miasma

feeling my way out of the miasma

The heading that opens the second chapter of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, “Start by discarding,
2 min read