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I’m like a frickin’ Zen Koan here. One of my goals for 2011 is to learn to face my Taekwon-do belt tests without fear. * Usually, right before my test I’m all whacked out, worried that I might mess up, or that I don’t know my stuff or that I might make an ass of myself. [...]
When I was in Girl Guides I always hated the Guide Law that stated ‘A guide smiles and sings, even under difficulty.’ I can see the value in the be-cheerful-keep-your-spirits-up sort of mentality it implies and sure, sheer grumpiness might make a bad situation worse sometimes but given that I will power through, I wanted [...]
Reverb10 Prompt 15 : 5 minutes. Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010. by Patti Digh Author of Creative is a Verb: If You’re Alive, You’re Creative The five minute part Oh shit, [...]
Reverb10 Prompt: Appreciate. What’s the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it? by Victoria Klein author of 27 Things to Know About Yoga In 2010 I’ve really come to appreciate my friends. I have always been appreciative of them, don’t get me wrong, [...]
December 6 – Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it? (Author: Gretchen Rubin) This is a weird one for me. In a way I make a lot of things, I bake and I [...]
#Reverb10 Prompt for December 5 – Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why? (Author: Alice Bradley)* I’m not good at letting go. Not in most senses of the word. It’s hard for me to know when to stop, hard to know when I’ve invested enough time, hard to know [...]
# Reverb10 Prompt 4 – Wonder. How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year? by Jeff Davis In 1994, I took a course called Myth and Art lead by an amazing professor named Richard Ilgner who could make connections between things I had never thought to connect before. He introduced [...]
Today I wrote the title after the piece, I think that works better. Today’s Reverb10 prompt is from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits and mnmlst : What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? This question makes sense coming from him because he is all [...]
I assume I’ll get better with my titles as the month goes on, but in the spirit of ‘Done beats perfect every time’ I’m going to run with this one. My word for 2010 REACTIVE I’m reaching the end of 2010 kind of baffled and frazzled, I’m not sure how a whole year has passed [...]
