by Havi Brooks | Sep 13, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
My friend Michael has this theory. It’s been at least a decade since he explained it to me so there’s pretty much no way I can do justice to its twisted brilliance/hilarity, but the basic idea is this: Sometimes we fall out of synch with the world. Or with...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 12, 2010 | my personal practice
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. So my itty bitty personal ads made me realize that it’s time to make a regular practice of trying to feel okay asking for stuff. Even when the asking thing feels weird and conflicted. Ever since I posted the...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 10, 2010 | updates & announcements
Because it’s Friday AGAIN. And because traditions are important. In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of self-reflection. And you get to join in if you feel like it. An odd-shaped little...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 9, 2010 | stuff I think about
Yesterday we thought about containers, which is a word I dislike but a concept I love. So we actually talked about shelter (and about blanket forts and ship voyages). And building a sukkah (conceptual or otherwise) to symbolically hold us while we go through whatever...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 8, 2010 | stuff I think about
There’s this thing in the world of self-help (self-helpishness? self-helpery?) where I kind of live — people are always talking about containers. About creating containers for things to happen in. I love the concept. Love it! I don’t love the word....
