by Havi Brooks | Jan 1, 2015 | my personal practice
On New Year’s Eve, just as it was beginning to get dark, I had two sudden realizations. One was that I did not in fact want to go out dancing. I love west coast swing with an intensity I don’t even know how to describe, and I’ve missed eight weeks of...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 21, 2011 | my personal practice
Yesterday I told you a long and complicated but also awesome story about a perfect simple solution. And there were other things I wanted to tell you about perfect simple solutions and resolutions but I didn’t get around to any of it. But really the main thing we...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 19, 2011 | stuff I think about
The perfect simple solution is a phrase I have borrowed from Hiro. This phrase is actually a sort of perfect simple solution itself, in that it elegantly sums up its own magic in its name. A perfect simple solution is perfect because of its simplicity. The unexpected,...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 1, 2009 | my personal practice, not hating on yourself
Five in the morning, again. There was a period of oh, at least five years, when every New Year’s Day found me at five in the morning sitting at a certain table in the corner of a certain bar in Tel Aviv. Two of those years I’d spent New Year’s Eve...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 26, 2007 | noozletter, stucknesses & stuckification
New Year’s resolutions that don’t involve beating yourself up I love New Year’s. Not the whole party thing of course, which is not at all my cup of tea. My cup of tea is a hot, steaming … well, cup of tea. Preferably with yerba buena leaves...
