Monthly Archives: April 2008

Curiosity Killed the Cat

In living your life as a practice one of the things that I encourage everyone to take on as a practice is paying attention to what comes out of your mouth. And of course, what you allow into your ears, but that's for another post. Words are creative or destructive, and Edward ...

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Remember Pons and Fleischmann?

These were the guys that announced to the world that they had solved cold fusion. For those of you who have no idea what cold fusion is, it is the ability to release energy (more energy than it takes to cause the cold fusion) from water at room temperature and atmospheric ...

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The Australia Experiment

So I'm a closet visionary. I predicted electronic talking dictionaries in the mid '80's when the Apple IIe/c was all the rage. What that proves I can't say, I just thought it would lend some credibility into my initial public foray into uncharted waters. In this case the Indian and ...

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Clutter

So with my "Getting things done (not)" as the background, I write about how "clutter" affects me. Like our hero in this April 17th 2008 post, in the process of doing one task I find myself distracted by another. Does this happen to you? On the way to look for a folder or file, I notice ...

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Getting things done (not)

I'll be musing about clutter, distractions and the importance of systems and routines in living your life as a practice, and I thought this cute story below would be a great set-up. I have no idea who wrote it. Enjoy. Recently, I was diagnosed with Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder ...

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Your relationship to the way things are

Fundamental practice #1 is to observe and notice. Start paying attention to your relationship to the way things are: the government, the environment, getting ahead, making money, your mother, your husband etc. Do you notice you have a set story or conversation about all of these things? ...

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Food price rises concerning anyone?

Today in the Wall Street Journal there's an article that's headed "Food Inflation, Riots Spark Worries for World Leaders." Does this occur to anyone else like one of these fake headlines from a movie plot that leads to some huge special effects scene two-thirds into the movie? The scene opens with ...

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