by First Mate | Jun 7, 2019 | stuff I think about
Photo by Craig Fritz / @craigfritzeye, this is the skylight of our new retreat center, come visit! 19 minutes I have been [taking] nineteen minutes a day to do [a something] that is quiet or pleasurable or reflective. [Taking?] Is that even the word? Is it taking or...
by First Mate | Nov 27, 2012 | stucknesses & stuckification
At the Playground, where I work play, there is a very small treasure box. Whenever you remember something that hurts, you drop a tiny stone from the bowl of tiny stones into the treasure box. If it hurts a lot, you can drop more stones. All the stones! It’s...
by First Mate | Nov 20, 2012 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
Today I am secretly turning the rain into different colors, and this is a proxy for what I am actually going to be doing. I want to do some writing about a (potentially) painful (to me) thing. But I also don’t want. So instead I will be secretly turning the rain...
