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This week I had the impulse to e-mail the One City bloggers and ask someone to take my spot this week since I wouldn’t be able to do my post, leaving out the details of why. About to click send on the group e-mail, I reconsidered. Part of being a writer is reaching out to…

A few years ago I left my office in the Flatiron building at the end of the workday, walked a few blocks down 23rd Street, and arrived at a small apartment where I took off all of my clothes and immersed myself in a sensory deprivation chamber. At the time I was a novice meditator…

Driving back from Vermont today I was considering how strange it is that automotive technology is so primitive.  If all the other familiar technologies in our lives had stopped at the maturity level of gas powered cars, we would be travelling home for the holidays in a stagecoach, listening to the IDP live by candlelight,…

I’m on my way out to celebrate my birthday, but I didn’t want my turn to pass without acknowledging the Buddhist refuge vow ceremony many of us at the ID Project took park in yesterday. I wanted to thank Acharya Spiegel for explaining to us what it means to take refuge and giving us the vows. His…

Providence can be defined as understanding, intent, and action. Maybe omniscience and foresight. I’m no Calvinist so I can’t really say for sure, but Divine Providence, apparently, can also smile and dance. I found this out this morning at five a.m., when the following text message appeared in my phone: “This is a stranger. And…

I had a funny experience today. Unable to write my post on Wednesday due to a busy day of theater-related stuff, I decided that, after going to bed at 2am I would wake at 6:30 this morning and spend an hour or so writing and musing about Right Speech and Right Livelihood, the subjects of…

I am commitment averse. I’m not a hopeless case – I can still show up to meetings and maintain a long-term relationship and care for a puppy, etc., but I often have trouble sticking to the broader commitments in my life, like exercising regularly and treating people with kindness and eating broccoli. I don’t meditate…

Ethan talks a lot about interdependence at what might be called the macro level, for example, in terms of food production and consumption. So what’s the micro level? Have you ever noticed that people pick up the attitudes, preferences and habits of the people with whom they spend a lot of time, or with whom…

My friend works for an Art PR firm, so she does things like promote up and coming museums and exhibitions. She is savvy and completely up to date on all the goings on in the art world. Recently, she was working incredibly hard and long on a new museum opening. She had given over many…

Allow me to indulge in some pride – pride I have in my 16-year-old sister, Kate. Last week, while other teenagers pined over the Jonas Brothers or lamented over Clay Aiken, my sister did this. She rounded up a group of supporters (friends, teachers, and people who care), and let a team in the Light…
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