It’s not all gravy. I mean, there’s a lot of gravy,but it’s lumpy in spots, maybe too salty here and there. I have yet to develop a routine, for example. I meander into each day, like a drifter in my own life. I have more time to think about pain, where its coming from,what aggravatesContinue reading “#493: On Approaching Two Years of Retirement”
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Mindfulness in 2023: A Reflection
It has been five years since I have written one of these end-of-the-year reflections. I’m coming into this one after rereading what I wrote in 2018. In the intervening half a decade, I must have been just too overwhelmed by COVID and the ending of a career in education to be bothered to do aContinue reading “Mindfulness in 2023: A Reflection”
#468: My first year out of a long steady job . . .
If my memory serves me on this lovely spring morning (finally!) I have prefaced almost every single one of my (so far) 27 sonnets for the month of April with a little bit of prose–some context, some notes about process, some observations about the craft of sonneteering. Today, I may have some notes on thisContinue reading “#468: My first year out of a long steady job . . .”
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