Zen emphasizes physical work as the essential complement to philosophical contemplation. Today as I swept the floor I saw why. Noon had passed my bad morning-mood began to improve and I realized I was having a lot of difficulty making the change a lot of people refer to as "growing up." It's an essential part of the problems I'd been experiencing ( Read more... )

So I'm supposed to be busy as fuck, but there's just no way I could go through today without posting this:

Dani just won first place in Stanford's writing contest for her story, "Caulking," the finalized draft she produced after having it rejected by the Pacific Review and then talking over the story with me ( Read more... )

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