Just visiting the blog site – a rare event, as I am so busy most of the time – and noticed that it’s been one year and one day since I last posted.
Wish I could say that I have some great and profound realization to share from this year of contemplation, but it seems the things I was saying then are yet true. The self is my undoing, the attachment to its successes and failures my torment, and the passing of time a constant source of wonder and sadness.
May all beings be happy!
I’ve added a short story, Serena and Katherine. I developed the story from a short piece I wrote during the summer intensive with Southern Writing Project several years back. It’s entirely fictional and I have no idea where it came from or what it’s about. It’s just a story. It was fun to write and I think it’s fun to read. Hope you’ll try and like it! (Would love some feedback on this….)
I’m thinking of posting some other writing here… a couple of short stories, maybe some more serious stuff – essays, probably on Buddhist topics. I’m also working on adding some pages to the book project – probably rewrites of the next Chapter of the Trip sequence.
Am hoping to get some exchange going with my dear friend L., who’s also working on a book…
The two documents I scanned in come up very large in the blog version. Can’t figure out how to control that, yet. You can scroll around and see the whole thing, but you can also click on it and it will go to the original document – opens it in the same window – and you can see the whole thing. Then you have to hit your browser’s back arrow to get back to the blog.
I included these documents just in case anyone should doubt the veracity of this story. If I could, I’d scan in the scars on my mind and remove all doubt. These will have to do.
Fall has been slow in the writing department. There have been lots of other things going on, but not much progress on the book. I have written two articles for the Golden Islander, and may do more of that, but my focus has been on Giana, the kids, the pottery, the Vipassana center… generally on ploughing through this deep, mucky section of life’s field that has come with the Fall season.
Have been considering depositing some of my other writing efforts on this blog site… some stories that I want to re-write and/or edit, maybe even some of the School is Zen stuff, which I’ve more or less abandoned hopes of finishing, could be re-cast with less sectarian tones, maybe for a general teacher audience…
Also may do some non-book related blogging here. Lots of things going on that I could drone on about. An electronic journal of sorts…
A War Journal 