by Havi Brooks | Aug 3, 2010 | my personal practice
The third-worst job I ever had involved a lot of dread. Dread and anxiety and pressure and deadness and agonizing wishing it would end. Maybe not as full-of-dread as the Moroccan mafia toy import company, and maybe not as full-of-deadness as the assembly line. But the...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 29, 2010 | updates & announcements
I like rituals. This is not a secret. I like the way they can be tiny and silly and mysterious all at the same time. How they cultivate mindfulness but not in some annoying “ooh I’m being mindful” way. How they can be private and communal at the same...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 7, 2010 | biggification, stuff I think about
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 | Jan 28, 2010 | stuff I think about
Selma and I are away in Monterey teaching our Destuckification Retreat, so this post is one I actually wrote several days ago. Correction. It has occurred to me more than once — actually, about twice a week — that I have done something of an injustice to...
