Look before you throw
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. –Robert Green Ingersoll Years ago now, I sat at a business dinner determined not to talk about business. We were in Sydney, I believe, amidst people who actually work to live and not the other way around. I knew …
Retreat to move forward
Sometimes in the madness of our lives what we really need is a quiet space on 63 acres of rolling land in the mountains of North Carolina, a moment to look at our life’s stories, to learn from them, and to re-story ourselves. I’ll hold only one public retreat this …
Happy birthday to a favorite human
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this …
Anatomy of a Whiner
Thanks to everyone who has posted home remedies, words of comfort, and fantastic excerpts from literature to aid in my recovery…it’s all working! I’m not running a marathon yet–maybe tomorrow, not today–but I’m at least back in the world of those who sit upright, eat garbanzo beans, and watch the …
Happy birthday, Mr Brilliant
I don’t know. Have I mentioned once or twice or a thousand times that I love Mr Brilliant? Not just for the spectacular ways in which he thinks and the marvelous crazy wonderful gifts and the James Joyce glasses and the fact that he calls up the White House chef …
Take a road trip
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. -Lao Tzu Have I ever mentioned that I desperately want a vintage Airstream? My dream is to deck out a big metal vintage tube like a rock band’s tour bus (I’ll pretend to be Tracy Chapman or …
Welcome to 37days…
At some point in our lives, we’ll all just have thirty-seven days to live. Maybe that day is today. Maybe not. There are new, interesting eyes (and, presumably, whole faces) peeking into 37days recently—many as a result of this site being newly noted as a TypePad Featured Blog. Thanks, TypePad! …
Be generous and love more
When I started writing LIFE IS A VERB, the first book to emerge from these pages of 37days, I started noticing patterns, like all of life is a pattern. What were the organizing patterns around which these essays fell? What lessons were they teaching me? As I sat and read …
Separated at birth
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. -James Joyce After mentioning in an earlier post my sometimes uncanny resemblance to James Joyce, an observant 37days reader, Rick, investigated further: "You know, you are exactly right! There is a definite resemblance between you and …
