A Mindful Life

Oh, the wisdom of How To Blog and Not Lose Your Job. [via Euan at The Obvious?]

From January 2002 to August 2003, I kept a personal weblog that consisted of an amalgam of topics: notations about my mundane daily life, deep explorations of existential questions, self-revelation (journal therapy), and links to items of interest to me that I wanted to share. I learned with some difficulty the danger of a) writing [...]

Kali In An Onion I heft the white onion in my right hand; the sunlight slanting through the window caresses it, brings a glow to this smooth moon. In my left hand I grasp a knife, blade glinting; as homage to mother Kali, I split the globe. Peeling off the outer layer, a husk of [...]

I have been playing with the format on this blog! You see, currently I maintain two blogs, and I’ve been desiring more unity in my writing. I spent this evening changing the layout to allow the left column to contain more information of a personal nature, and the right column to highlight my interests of [...]

All writing contains memoir and of course the more you strive to hide it inside of fictional constructs, the more apparent it often becomes. Writers are like shoppers. We go through life putting things in the basket. How jasmine smells in the rain, how a lover’s face looks upon us when we first awake, what [...]

“In the other world” means in a world which is veiled from our eyes, our physical eyes; but it does not mean a world far away from us, beyond our reach. Both the living and the dead inhabit the same space; we all live together. Only a veil separates us, the veil of this physical [...]

if you can’t go to sleepmy dear soulfor tonightwhat do you think will happen if you pass your nightand merge it with dawnfor the sake of heartwhat do you think will happen if the entire worldis covered with the blossomsyou have labored to plantwhat do you think will happen if the elixir of lifethat has [...]

Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made the healer of it. –Alan Paton

God’s presence is there in front of me – a fire on the left, a lovely stream on the right. One group walks toward the fire, into the fire, another toward the sweet flowing water. No one knows which are blessed and which not. Whoever walks into the fire appears suddenly in the stream. And [...]