-- Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

• In Memory of Gregory S. Weeks
  My brother Greg, who survived metastatic melanoma and alcoholism in his 30's and lived for 20+ more years in good health, died of pancreatic cancer on May 1, 2008 at the age of 58, after living with the inoperable condition for a year and a half. It's hard for me to say all the ways in which both his living and dying have impacted my life and personal development. This link is to a copy of his obituary.
  
  
• Cliff podcasts his lunch with Chris
  Cliff Ravenscraft is a professional podcaster, and he wants audio podcasting to not only be his living, but also a valuable part of being in community.
  
  
• Closing the Post
  As mentioned in a questionably useful tribute to Twitter earlier today, I received a cell phone "tweet" this afternoon of a story by Joe Strupp about the Cincinnati Post's impending year end closing.
  
  
• The Secret Loss of Bees
  It seems there ought to be a lot more buzz about our vanishing bees and what they mean to food and life everywhere.
  
  
• What I wrote while finding time to write
  Amazing how many kinds of writing get done in a week of living, only to end up as so much language litter.
  
  
• What are the 7 Wonders of the world?
  One version of what has become an ever-changing list created as part of a gratitude practice...
  
  
• I never called it meditation
  A poem about discovery
  
  
• Changed Minds
  If we continue to look at our problems the same old ways, we continue to have the same old problems. We need to see with fresh eyes. We need to have changed minds.
  This is an invitation to anyone who'd like to contribute ideas, personal experiences and content for a new web site: ChangedMinds.org...
  
  
• Office Aisle
  Journal Verse... A light but all too true look at a long and shameful addiction. :-)
  
  
• Hoping that light really does dispel the darkness
  Journal entry - 9-15-01
  
  
• Consciousness and Consumerism
  Connections between buying all that stuff we never really wanted while wondering where our local stores have gone…
  
  
• The Power of NOW
  Reviewing Eckhart Tolle's book
  A book about awakening, about living in the now instead of being lost in our thoughts about the past or the future. Even more, a practical guide, presented in a way that turns lights on all around us, enabling us to see a simple path to living an awakened life. A life empowered by our own Presence.
  
  
• Full Moon at 41
  ..for janie and her moon tonight
  
  
• The Medium is the Message, but what language are they speaking?
  I had the opportunity to write an introduction for the book Taking the Leap into New Media, by Stephanie A. Redman, in 1998.
  
  
• Conversations with Megan
  ...spending the afternoon with Meg... listening to Wilcox, leaning back in the chair, on the sofa, her tiny limbs tangled in my my arms, listening to the music, the words...
  
  
• Wild Flowers in Deep Water
  Journal...
  
  
• It feels a lot like joy
  Journal...
  
  
• Shell Island
  A journal entry written a few years ago from the balcony of a room on the beach in North Carolina... Helpful, or at least very interesting sometimes, to read it again now that some of the years I wondered about have passed.
  
  
• Hank and Forrest driving around town
  Journals from 94 or so...
  
  
• Taking Megan Dancing
  This was written one night in 1994 after a Brownie Troop Sweetheart dance. Dad and daughter dates... Gotta enjoy them while we can. Time flies.
  
  
• Yearning for Justice
  A song born of a brief encounter with Liberation Theology. Maybe as much of a prayer of sorts, as a song.
  
  
• We are all Imaginary
  Whose Story am I?
  
  
• Why I like Kurt
  "Man is not evil, they seem to say. He is simply too hilariously stupid to survive."
  
  
• DONUTS
  The following article is a story. It is only a story. If it were a real-life account you would be instructed where to purchase a copy of Reader's Digest so that you could turn to the real-life, heart-warming, human interest blah blah blah section and be inspired and stuff...
  
  
• Jennifer & Megan
  Journalling in 94