Last Friday I participated in a group Zoom call with the spiritual teacher I have been mentioning. That session was pleasant, but possibly didn't go as deep for me as the 20-minute individual call the day before.

Even though my thoughts and feeling frequently return to painful endings and disappointments related to my social life here, and to the ( Read more... )

I see that, in my last entry, I mentioned a podcast interview with a spiritual teacher who works to facilitate the cultivation of awareness. I have continued to listen to and/or watch interviews with him and presentations by him over the last week. Yesterday I met with him for an introductory Zoom session. I am scheduled to participate in a group ( Read more... )

I've been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. After focusing on narcissism and cults for a while, I have followed up on some of the guests from podcast interviews on those topics and have begun to explore emotional healing more.

Yesterday I viewed part of an interactive session on cultivating awareness that the facilitator posted to YouTube. I ( Read more... )

One of the things I realized recently is that I've been challenging myself to say "no" to things at work and have been following through with those plans.

One way I said "no" was to inform the Department Head that I planned to step down from the position of Associate Head for Graduate Studies at the end of the spring 2022 semester so that I could ( Read more... )

First day of classes for the academic year.

As I was leaving the building I thought, "The young people (some of them) are cute, but I need to get on with the rest of my life."

Peace,

KH

I woke up this past morning feeling frustrated and somewhat victimized once more over having been "cancelled" on my student evaluations for allegedly telling anti-trans "jokes" in class and for supposedly "disrespecting" students. It is already nearly three months since I read these anonymous criticisms, and clearly they are still affecting me. The ( Read more... )

One thing I neglected to mention in the previous entry was that there is a living link between my first semester of teaching (during my first Saturn return) and the coming academic year (a year-and-a-half or so past my second Saturn return): an entering doctoral student is a former student of one of the students I had during my first semester of ( Read more... )

I have continued to reflect the things I have read in Erin Sullivan's book and have now begun to read Elizabeth Spring's Astrology for the Third Act of Life (n.p.: Archeon Press, 2018). Yesterday I printed out several astrological charts for my first and second Saturn returns and for other significant transits and progressions that occurred at that ( Read more... )

Having reviewed passages from Erin Sullivan's Saturn in Transit that were relevant to my recent and current situation, I turned next to her The Astrology of Midlife and Aging (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005). Here is a relevant passage from that text:

Most people arriving to this age say that they feel a sense of freedom from having to ( Read more... )

It has been a while, and it feels good to be back.

Where to begin?

In the Gregorian calendar, it is August which, in academia, is the long Sunday night before the Monday morning of the beginning of the semester. I carry the thought that I should have mastered my preparation for the academic year by now, but it seems that, since the pandemic settled ( Read more... )