Category Archives: paying attention

Back to Work Blahs

I am just finishing my spring break week off, and I feel very ambivalent about what I have spent my time doing and going back to my routine of having the middle of my day absorbed by work. I like … Continue reading

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Here I Am Again Wondering How I Got Here

My memory is so mysterious and unreliable, shifty, that I have to set up landmarks in my own history to tie it down, but stable points are hard to find, the births of my children, the day Mary and I … Continue reading

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Pay No Attention to The Screaming Chickens

Change always brings with it fear and loathing for many, for example the weird behavior around health care reform. We are heading into some dangerous times because of peoples rigid ideas about the world need to loosen up, and that … Continue reading

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You Can Still Cross the Water After the Bridge Burns.

After I read this post at Russian Ramblings. I started thinking about a few friendships I have walked away from because of  some harsh words or some spiky, defensive behavior, or the times when I chased some friends away when … Continue reading

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Naturally Artificial

If we are indeed part of nature then everything people make is part of nature. I think that we need to figure out what is useful and beautiful in people made things and what interferes with our lives. People are … Continue reading

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