by Havi Brooks | Jun 13, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: A large pic of a tiny pudding (malabi), a vanilla rosewater pudding with pomegranate syrup and shredded coconut, in a mini glass jar Entry / pre- This is a very long piece, 8400 words last I checked, four times what I usually write, no way to write less. Wanted...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 4, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: View of a favorite lake in New Mexico where I have never once gone swimming, blue-green water, surrounded by juniper and piñon, I am asking the water to lend its powers of free movement, clarity, and something that is both open and contained. A Chat With The...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 17, 2009 | updates & announcements
So I started this blog a year and a half ago. With a post called I has a blog. Since then there have been four hundred and thirty posts, if you include this one. And close to ten thousand comments. It’s weird, I know. I don’t know what’s up with that...
by Havi Brooks | May 28, 2009 | book reviews, stucknesses & stuckification
So I was going to write something to answer all the people who wonder out loud (well, in email form, mostly) why it is that I require all clients and Kitchen Table-ers to read Nonviolent Communication. And to sleep with it under their pillows own their own copy. But I...
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...