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The Undertow of Thought

When I started meditating, nothingness was my goal. I wanted to sit in the peace of living, determined to eliminate my every thought for at least one hour every morning. Upside down and inside out thinking, of course, and utterly impossible. Big thoughts announce themselves by snatching up space as if it only exists for […]

Every Time He Shakes His Tail

I was in my late 30s, finishing my Master of Arts thesis, when I finally understood writing as a process. Admittedly, it sounds silly but in 1986, the “how-to” of writing was threatening an academic tradition once thought unassailable, at least in the English department at a small university in the Rocky Mountains. It was […]

How Not to Become a Zen Master

“That’s right. Blame it on Zen,” my neighbor, Grace, says. With Zen, I just don’t hold onto names or nouns anymore was what I was thinking, aloud it seems. Grace is a Zen master not because she is 90 but because she is contemplative in all ways. She was born to it. And she attends […]

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