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Mating from Home (opens the original)
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This is a modern couples’ curse that shows up a lot in my office. A unique stress comes from working in the same location as you live, especially when your partner does the same. It sets up a situation where you never leave work, and work becomes home and work takes over your couple dynamic.The home becomes a petri dish of stress. Pet peeves get magnified. Boundaries and roles melt. Without defined stopping times, people work late into the night. There is a constant dialogue about work, and that
Creating Mandalas for Fun and Profit (opens the original)
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In Vajrayana Buddhism, visualizing a mandala can become part of your meditation practice. There are elaborate mandala offerings, sand mandalas, and you will see a mandala, or universe, depicted in the brightly colored thangkas (tapestries) on the walls of meditation centers. They can include ornate geometric patterns, or depict a range of beings from the Indian and Tibetan pantheons, and might explain where a lot of ‘60s album art came from.Whenever I work with a new practice, my skeptical part
Failure is Awesome (opens the original)
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Note: I gave this talk in June 2012, to a group of graduating writing students I had worked with for a year as a part of the Attic Institute’s Atheneum program. The illiterate child I mentioned has since learned to read and is about to start college.The title of this essay comes from an offhand remark I made while speaking at a university in upstate New York. It was 2009, some months after my novel Captain Freedom came out, and I had been invited to speak and perform for a class because I knew o
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