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 of [...]
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I Ain’t no Doctor
an occasional column by charles faris, hhc
Panic is fear of the natural
So here we go again, the latest outbreak of the disease that is going to
destroy civilization,
bring on martial law and enforced vaccination, or
bring the population down to a sustainable level.
Well sorry, I don’t really have the time in my day [...]
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the hub of the wheel
welcome to week 2 of true wheel tuesdays. last week we worked with the basic assessment, which was simple and straightforward enough, i hope. this week we will work with some more simple exercises and see what happens. it’s always like that when truing a wheel…all wheels are different, [...]
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the true wheel
well it’s a great day when you discover that marcel duchamp took the trouble to create a prototype logo for your once and future group program a full 96 years earlier, and so god is in hir heaven and all is right with the world!
that said, today is going to kick-off a series of weekly looks [...]
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numbers and chaos
number theory, from its humble beginnings as “one, two, many” has always existed as an attempt to make sense of the world we live in, give us some firm mental ground to walk upon, and, when we are lucky, offer us some predictive value. ironically enough, the field of mathematics has become a victim [...]
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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 in [...]
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three steps backward
after the profound intensity of last week’s healing agent, holding a vision of myself in wholeness and light, it is with great relief, premature though it may be, that i announce the triad of themes that i have in mind for the remainder of this month, including my theme for this week, which [...]
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pardon me if you live in the southern hemisphere
here in boston it is cold, snowy, icy, and dark. well, it’s not dark just now…and in 5 hours it will be. yesterday was winter solstice, and the sun is currently as far south as it will be for a whole ‘nother year. that makes for some [...]
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psst…
well i got a secret but can i keep it
i better cross my heart and hope to die
—stacey earle
not a happy secret, i’m sorry to say. and unlike the general theory of secrets (yours are mostly forgotten, never revealed; mine simply the latter), this one has a half life of a couple weeks at most. [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
note: while the non-doc continues to ponder sleep, we’ve dug up this ancient document from his formative years.
If It Hurts, You Are Doing It Wrong
When he first began to teach yoga in the early 70’s, David Williams was told that the “the worst thing is to [...]
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