Overnight the buds popped on the trees and the jacarandas are exploding with brilliant lavender blooms. Spring fever is here and - oh - there's a fat robin red-breast...welcome to working with a Spring fever. The phrase that keeps coming to mind for me is "Crazy Wisdom" (coined by the founder of Shambhala Buddhism, Chögyam Trungpa) which refers, according to Steven Goodman, "to someone who seems to be intoxicated with an un-bounded, luminous, loving energy." It aligns with the concept of the sacred fool, or as personified by the famous picture of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue - the … [Read more...]
My 201th Post: Rewriting Personal Narrative #2
Sitting at home on a Sunday night, coming up with yet another timesaving plan for organizing my notes on "Rewriting Personal Narrative." I have about 20,000 words I have written over the last 2-3 years but only recently have I actually tried to be disciplined about the project. As you can see above, my journals I tabbed from 2005-2010, I would be a good candidate for graphomania. I know those two cartons don't seem like much but I was also writing blogs, stories, poetry, a play during the same period. Not that I am trying to say any of it was good. Far from it, a lot of my journals, like so … [Read more...]