Sharing the Morning Pages I’ve been starting my day with 3 handwritten pages off and on for the past 10 years, full-on steady for the past 9 or 10 months. I wake up, walk to the couch, sit down and let the words pour out. It’s a process I initially lifted from Julia Cameron, author [...]
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Caesura There’s a term in poetry the caesura. A space between words to indicate a short pause a lull. Not quite a holiday. More like a day off. Or something like that. That’s what I feel like for today. After all the hustle and bustle of the past 2 weeks, preparing for Rowan’s [...]
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so now what? so you’ve assessed the trueness of your wheel, and you’ve discovered your strengths and your weaknesses, the areas where you are covered and the areas where you are bare, bald, ready to pop, flat! and you’ve set yourself some goals, spread out over time. and maybe you’ve even compared your goals to [...]
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sitting and sipping i’m sitting in the starbucks on linden street in wellesley, sipping tea from india tapping away at my laptop assembled in china, most recently re-spiffy-fied in tennessee. where are you? and where did all of your amenities come from? and what brings you and them together right where you are sitting [...]
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if one person comes forward… it will have been worth it. how one man left the kkk to apologize for the misdeeds of his youth. thanks to al giordano for the alert. is there an apology you could offer today that could open the door for others to come forth as well?
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put up or shut up! yesterday i asked you about your passion…what’s that thing that you will do regardless of how much time, money or freedom you have or don’t have. well of course i’ve been challenged to put some more words where my words are…or something like that…and so i’ll be taking some time [...]
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choice architecture in their book nudge, richard thaler and cass sunstein bring us the term choice architect, someone who creates a system to guide people in a particular direction of choice. my favorite example of a choice architect is the genius who came up with the idea of etching flies near the drains of urinals [...]
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down the rabbit hole oh foolish me. i thought this was the week to go through old stuff, material stuff, pieces of paper stuffed into paper sacks, bills and notices and stuff like that. you know, george carlin type stuff. yeah right. and why do i keep forgetting that everything material is a link to [...]
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here’s the audio/video version of january 12th’s monday morning motivator. go here for the youtube version.
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all will be revealed i can smile about it now but at the time it was terrible —morrissey “shakespeare’s sister” wow. what a week! starting out with the proclamation of 2009 as the year of self healing, which segued into this 1st week of the year as the week of holding a vision of myself [...]
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