Archive for September, 2011

Boston area reading today!

I'm excited to do a reading this afternoon (Sunday, September 25) at 4pm in the Barnes & Noble, Burlington, MA. If you're in the area, I'd love to see you there!

poetry wednesday : when you come to love, bring all you have.

When You Come to Love by Ann Fisher-Wirth When you come to love,bring all you have. Bring the milk in the jug,the checked cloth on the table—the conch that sang the seawhen you were small,and your moonstone rings,your dream of wolves,your woven bracelets. For the key to love is in the fire’s nest,and the riddle of love is the hawk’s…
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mindful monday : clean clementine lines

There are three rooms left to do, to clear out, to declutter and make spacious-er. And the attic. And the basement. Oh at the stuff. Some of it is boxes of papers I will never use again. I don't need them. I don't want them. Some of it is mementos. I don't need them. I want them. And then some…
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thinking thursday.

[this is me pretending to be a news anchor. I am being thoughtful by finger acting] [mind] Why fracking is no fracking good. I am intrigued by the Big History Project. Is addiction in the head? [body] I'm definitely going to try this oatmeal recipe. Oh, Hugh Laurie, we love your crankiness. And your music. [soul] I love these women….
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poetry wednesday : september’s lovely in new york.

Advisory by George Bradley for Jim Kehoe September’s lovely in New York, the sky Returned to baby blue, the breeze now mild As breath, and if you’ve anything at all Important planned, now’s when to do it: fall In love, begin a book, beget a child, Marry, get religion, learn to fly. September’s stunning, even on so odd An island as Manhattan,…
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come, let’s talk

Here are some upcoming events that mean a great deal to me – I hope you can join me for one of them! September 13-14 – Carbondale, IL Sept 13 – 7:30pm, Presenting the Glassman University Honors Lecture Sept 14 – 10am, Reading/signing at Barnes and Noble – Carbondale September 19 – CreateNow 6-month Telecoaching class starts! – Join a small…
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poetry wednesday : skin remembers

Two Countries -Naomi Shihab Nye Skin remembers how long the years growwhen skin is not touched, a gray tunnelof singleness, feather lost from the tailof a bird, swirling onto a step,swept away by someone who never sawit was a feather. Skin ate, walked,slept by itself, knew how to raise a see-you-later hand. But skin feltit was never seen, never known…
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mindful monday : simple is spacious

(suddenly, she got taller) The floor of the front porch has been sanded, and is ready to be painted. What color to choose? I love deep red and deep green, but I think all the dust in the world would show. So I'm veering toward painting it the color of pollen just to acknowledge the reality of spring (and the…
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remember.

I am not interested in political statements or warnings or diatribes on this tenth anniversary of 9/11. I'm not inclined to write a post about how we've lost our way in these past ten years, about how the terrorists have won if their goal was to irretrievably break this country apart and allow fundamentalism to take root in the gaps…
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thinking thursday.

(Sometimes you have to hold them.) [mind] My new favorite comics. If you are trying to do business online and feel you have to follow the lead of others to create pop-ups to generate leads and get people on your list and funnel people into taking some action you want them to take and it all feels just sleazy and…
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