What if I wrote a book about Freedom from Self-Improvement? After talking to Keri Smith last week – every month I invite a wise person to have a conversation with us at the Comfort Cafe – I started to dream of a Keri-style book about getting free from this insidious idea there is something to [...]

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A sometimes Wednesday happening in which I dissolve posting flummoxia by posting a a jambalaya, a comfort basket, a wiry fankle (a Scottish word that means a tangle or a state of confusion), a bit of this and tad of that. As you probably know, Freedom from Self-Improvement was last week and I humbly submit it was as blustery [...]

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Each week for as long as I’m digging it,  I’ll share my responses to the Life Organizer questions – my most recent book. We do this together at the Comfort Cafe every week. You might enjoy playing along or maybe choosing one question to reflect upon. Note: this week, the questions are different then the [...]

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Wow, what a wonderful week. What fun to see the freedom created by remembering we don’t have to improve ourselves to be. We are. I found myself feeling like I was on retreat all week. I’d stop and ask myself, “Why this feeling?” Then I’d remember Freedom from Self-Improvement, and that I don’t have to [...]

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