I’m wondering and thinking and experimenting with this idea of desire as separate from mood. It continues to excite and free me… and then that niggely nasty word should comes creeping in the door… and confuses me a tad… I should make this retreat deeper and richer. I should be meditating more, asking for guidance [...]
Entries from November 2007
Desire, Mood and Shoulds
November 27th, 2007 · 12 Comments
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Desire Vs. Mood
November 24th, 2007 · 14 Comments
I have been chewing on the latest issue of my friend’s Michael Neill’s ezine – okay, not literally chewing – because it may help you if you’ve read my last two books and because I’m having such a hard time with this so-called retreat I’m in the midst of. A bit from Michael’s newsletter: “In [...]
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True Calling
November 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment
I loved this quote from Mark Silver’s newsletter this morning. If you don’t subscribe, do! “You don’t need to express every last bit of creativity and who you are in your business. You just have to enjoy it, and be willing to bring your heart into it.” — Mark Silver
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Middlemarch
November 6th, 2007 · 6 Comments
I’m rereading, for first time since high school or college, Middlemarch by George Eliot. I’ve wanted to for a long while as one of the main characters, Dorothea, has informed my main character of Jane (in my yet to be rewritten novel) but I lacked the mind space to pay attention to Eliot’s intricate dead-on [...]
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