Days and daze of long entries.
Book I'm reading: shoes outside the door, desire, devotion and excess at the san francisco zen center, michael downing. sex, power, madness, corruption, zen center has it all. practice too - this is an admirable book for a) exploring non-linearity in its retelling of these stories, and b) aiming for a constant, and constantly unresolved balance, neither cynical nor idealistic. that it suceeds makes for a fairly rare quality - a book of scandal (which its not - quite) with no bad guy. rather like life.
Planted dozens of rewood saplings in bonsai pots yesterday. clamping down moss on top of the soil (water retention - also prevents soil from overheating and run-off when watering - humble and irrespressible moss). actually i pressed quite a lot of it - air bubbles trapped underneath dry its roots out.
Tired from incessant work - but not (quite) ill-humored. Is poetry a career? It is for the small legion of creative writing teachers out there who teach it. But what has that to do with anything - oh right, now Jim Goar is one of them. All the mysteries of transmission - in the zendo, and the classroom. What do we know? What do we know? What do we know? What do we know?
That Britta is going for a long, long spell of hiking.
Book I'm reading: shoes outside the door, desire, devotion and excess at the san francisco zen center, michael downing. sex, power, madness, corruption, zen center has it all. practice too - this is an admirable book for a) exploring non-linearity in its retelling of these stories, and b) aiming for a constant, and constantly unresolved balance, neither cynical nor idealistic. that it suceeds makes for a fairly rare quality - a book of scandal (which its not - quite) with no bad guy. rather like life.
Planted dozens of rewood saplings in bonsai pots yesterday. clamping down moss on top of the soil (water retention - also prevents soil from overheating and run-off when watering - humble and irrespressible moss). actually i pressed quite a lot of it - air bubbles trapped underneath dry its roots out.
Tired from incessant work - but not (quite) ill-humored. Is poetry a career? It is for the small legion of creative writing teachers out there who teach it. But what has that to do with anything - oh right, now Jim Goar is one of them. All the mysteries of transmission - in the zendo, and the classroom. What do we know? What do we know? What do we know? What do we know?
That Britta is going for a long, long spell of hiking.
posted by Kyle at 5:10 PM
1 Comments:
Kyle, I am one of them. Kind of. Don’t think I will be able to do exactly as I like, yet. Certainly not knowledgeable enough to be a great teacher, yet. However, this is all a process. I need to learn to be a teacher just as I learned/am learning how to be a writer. Mostly, I just look forward to the fun. I am certain the students will get something out of my class. And bc it is an internet class, it won’t be VD
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