73 Days

Anecdote: We have snow today.  I began to think catastrophically.  Not because of the snow.  The snow was very pretty to my boots.  I went to yoga class.  We had a substitute teacher.  His favorite words were “wonderful” and “excellent.”  Someone farted in class twice, and everyone gently pretended not to hear.  I taught a […]

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Day 74

Deep spiritual thought: The future is only an illusion inferred from our present state.  What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life.  What is most important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.  Only then does your […]

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Day 75 of 77

Most of us are going back to work tomorrow, if we haven’t already. Most of us actually don’t hate our jobs, we just resist change and resist effort, even when the effort is effective. Wiggling and fretting at transition time is normal.  That’s how you get and stay limber to move through the work at […]

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Day 76

Humor:  One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. “Oh, no,” I said, “Disneyland burned down.” He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good […]

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