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Archive for April 5th, 2007

More About the Monkey – Natalie Goldberg on Monkey Mind

Posted in Animals & Critters, Authors, Bones, Creative Nonfiction, Culture, Dreams, Gratitude, Memoir, Personal, Practice, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 5, 2007 | 13 Comments »

As red Ravine gets ready to launch, I’ve been thinking about how important it is to have a teacher, a mentor.
Natalie has been that for me.
It didn’t happen right away. It developed over a long, slow time of showing up and not being tossed away. Sometimes it meant being willing to listen to what [...]

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WRITING TOPIC – SLAM-O-RAMA

Posted in Art, Nature, Poetry, Recall, Spirituality, Writing Topics on April 5, 2007 | 9 Comments »

This weekend in Albuquerqe is the Poetry Slam competition to determine the members of the team who will go to the 2007 National Poetry Slam Championship in Austin, TX in August. I’m going to try to make the Albuquerque event. I want to see slam in action. It’s as much the performance as it is the [...]

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