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early riser

Show me the Benjamins
I’ve written here before about early rising, and while those words remain true in spirit if not 100% compliance (I am after all a yogi, so a modicum of flexibility is de rigueur), there is a dark side to the early rising regimen which can afflict those of us who are now [...]

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the 5am question
nothing like waking up at 5am after a night of serious dreaming to get one thinking about what they would really love to be doing right about now. one being me. how about you? what do you really want to be doing right now?
and since i dive right into morning pages after pulling [...]

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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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why i’m an early riser

by chas on March 26, 2009

 
the calm before the storm
it’s 4:58 in the morning, and section 2/1 of brian eno’s music for airports has just woken me. this is heaven. gentle minimal piano and angelic female voices, barely audible and yet for me a siren call: my morning pages await.
next to me, the woman is sound asleep. it would take [...]

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goodbye bni

by chas on March 3, 2009

  
 

fork in the road
after 9 months of waking up (almost) every tuesday morning at 5 am in order to do my mp’s and take my heart med before showering and rushing out the door in order to take the drive to temple sinai in brookline, 9 months in which i learned all the short cuts into and [...]

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woke up got out of bed
beat the clock this morning, woke up at 5 to 5, unaware of that for the moment, and felt that big burst of awakening that comes upon me sometimes when i wake up early enough. and as i had previously set my phone to wake me up at five, and [...]

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