On Failure
My friend Claudette posted this piece today: Since when did the word ______ become dirty in yoga?. I wondered what the word was that filled in the blank, so I meandered over to see. Perfection. Oh....
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What am I afraid of? I’m afraid I’ll never work full-time again. Which really means .. I’m afraid I’ll never have work that pays me a living wage. I’m afraid I’ll have to go back to working in an...
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At the beginning of 2014 my friend Louise Knight encouraged people to pick a word as their theme for the year. I loved doing it so much, I decided to do it again this year. Last year my word was...
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I’m a person who likes order. I like predictability. I like feeling in control. The first half of my life, I had a plan. Things went according to this plan. I had no reason to question why plans...
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A couple of years ago I started selecting a word as my theme for the year, rather than doing resolutions (which are fraught for many reasons that most of you know). I like to choose verbs, because they...
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Many of you know that I have spent some time thinking about failure, how failure is defined, what it means, and so on and so forth. Recently, as in possibly three weeks ago, I was feeling like an UTTER...
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