The Legacy of My Grandfathers
I recently read a letter written from Alice Walker, which really moved me during this time of transtion. While my political views are private, we are now in a historic time that will change and affect all of us, both on personal and professional levels. I have thought about how as a community we must come to support one another in this time of great challenge and transition. My own family has been affected by great historical challenges, and now, looking at the challenges that we face as a community, I have gone back to look at how history weaves itself into the very fabric of who I am.
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Revisions Over Wine
On Sunday, Barton and I spent the afternoon revising a proposal, a fifty page proposal I might add. The weather was so gorgeous that we broke out a bottle of wine and sat on the back porch to read the entire fifty-pages aloud to each other including headings, subheadings and footnotes. While my husband read from his computer, I read from a hard copy attached to a clipboard, and we switched reading after each section or a few paragraphs. Why would we do such a thing?
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Finding the Love in Writing
"A warrior does not give up what he loves. He finds the love in what he does."
-Peaceful Warrior
I always wanted to be a writer- I would be writing and reading with a flashlight under covers long after lights out as a child. My father, a psychologist, believed my teachers when they told them that my writing stories was interfering with my social skills. They didn't realize that writing stories was the only was I could survive being a child of divorced parents, switching houses literally every day. I hid my notebooks in my school lockers, under the bed, in closets, at my mother's house, anywhere.
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So Quick to Judge
I have been teaching a workshop entitled Haiku as a Spiritual Writing Practice, and the issue of judgment has come up recently. Leaving the judgment card at the door is difficult to do, and usually it has more to do with judgment of self than judgment of others.
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The Last Lecture
On July 25, 2008 Randy Pausch lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. His famous "last lecture" entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" at Carnegie Mellon, became a national bestseller. When I read his story, I was at the bookstore and could not put it down. Tears streamed down my face, touched by his inspiration, dedication and humor. From Randy's talk and words, we have been inspired to dream a little more, worry a little less.
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