Post Valentine's Post

It’s amazing how distant I feel from the writing life I’d worked so hard to establish over the past year. I was thinking for a while that I would give it a rest during the push of this semester. But I came back to last year's brainstorming about what I need to maintain my sanity--and writing figures too prominently to give it up. I’ll work hard to write at least once a week during this crazy time from now until…the end of May perhaps

I’m also going to refrain from composing directly on blogger, which got me into a bit of trouble before, morally and ethically. I just don’t feel right about putting lightly censored rants out there. And since I’m on a spiritual quest…

I forgot to tell you about that, right? Well, after all the posturing about Buddhism (and the consistent misspelling of it), I decided to stop yapping and start exploring for real. Imagine that! So I’ve been reading “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism.” One can also use help in establishing the appropriate amount of humility in a spiritual journey, I think. It’s been good so far, though I’m not sure how my feminism will jibe with Buddhist perspectives…After this book, I think I’ll be ready for some other texts about Buddhism, and ready to get serious about meditation too.

Random Thought: I love well-done commercials. Hey, at least I’m honest about my cog-ish identity in the capitalist machine. And, in the wake of going bonkers for Valentine's Day (balloons, fried pork chops, cards, sweets, stickers AND a Winnie the Pooh puzzle AND a strawberry shaped CD case for Rootie Toot's Laurie Berkner CDs--Dahhm you, Taahghey), I think the machine owes me some good mind-numbing pleasure.