January 22, 2017 (Sunday)

January 21, 2018

Not in my usual pose, sitting at a desk to write, but rather, Edith Wharton-style, propped up in bed, in the hotel room. It’s already 8:40am, we have to be back at the conference by 10:00, also have to check out by 10:00. The conference (Beyond Tomorrow 2: Arts, Culture, Community & the Future of […]

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January 21, 2017 (Saturday)

January 20, 2018

I’m in a tiny hotel room in Cambridge, where I’ll be staying till tomorrow. Yesterday, in between exercising, getting cleaned up, having breakfast, packing for the weekend, and boxing up the electronics I was taking into Cambridge for [company’s] free e-cycling offer, I listened to and watched Trump’s inauguration. It was surreal – on several […]

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January 20, 2017 (Friday)

January 19, 2018

At some early point in each meditation session, Andy tells us to close the eyes and to feel, almost immediately, the body: points of contact, against chair or floor, feet/ soles on floor, hands / arms on legs, etc. And today it made me think: what if I could feel the mind this way? Are […]

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January 19, 2017 (Thursday)

January 18, 2018

It’s cloudy, not too cold at all. Eerily warm, perhaps, for this time of year. Behind the clouds, the sun has risen high enough to cast a diffused kind of glare which reflects back at me from the patch of ocean I can see through the bare trees. In spring and summer, I’ll have to […]

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January 18, 2018 (Wednesday)

January 17, 2018

My intention. Andy, the fearless leader of the meditation program I use, almost always asks this, or asks us in meditation to clarify: what is your intention in doing this exercise? And today a very clear intention struck me. My intention is to connect my life. I suppose the corollary to that is a feeling […]

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January 17, 2017 (Tuesday)

January 16, 2018

Headache. Big bad one. Sinuses. Not good sleeping conditions. Sinus pressure. Unpleasant. It’s funny – no, actually, it’s not funny – what we habituate to. I’m now again, once more, habituated to living in B., and I still don’t know if I’m kidding myself when I think, “This is where I’ll stay put,” or if […]

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January 16, 2017 (Monday)

January 15, 2018

It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and therefore a holiday, meaning a no-rush morning. And our President-Elect is still on a feud (albeit I don’t think there’s anything new since a few days ago) with John Lewis, a black civil rights leader who got beat up marching for justice way back in the sixties when […]

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January 15, 2017 (Sunday)

January 14, 2018

Ah, Sunday… Not getting up that much later to start this routine, but having the “luxury” of knowing I can take my time is blissful. Begin. Benefit. Write. I feel like all this should be preparation for taking “massive action.” Or maybe, “massive” “action.” That is, first thought: what or which action? The more I […]

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January 14, 2017 (Saturday)

January 13, 2018

No headache this morning, yay. It feels good to awaken without pain. Yesterday afternoon, since I didn’t need to cook or anything, I took myself to A.café around four or just after, having packed noise-canceling earplugs, over-the-ear headphones, my iPad, a keyboard, a notebook, and the book by Elaine Scarry I’m reading. The plan was […]

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January 13, 2017 (Friday)

January 12, 2018

Woke up again with a headache, and yesterday’s headache lasted all day and night, too. I suspect that my headache is some kind of incipient inflammation – it feels “sinus-y,” in terms of pressure. Tonight I’m not cooking, and I may not bother grocery shopping today, which means I just might structure my afternoon around […]

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