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Meditation 2
May my body be brought to an easy stillness. May my mind be gently quiet. May I take a few good deep breaths. Although I move my hands to type, and you, reader, shuffle here and there, let there be an easy stillness approaching. Let it approach by brief pauses in movement. I want to…
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Blog 3
I’ve been seeing the world as the new Jerusalem. My boy plays with plastic pieces of a car’s track in the bath, it’s bliss. Austin Street is perfectly aligned under a blue sky, it’s amazing. I see it as the New Jerusalem, and my inner body delights. I’ve been running Wittgenstein’s “duck-rabbit” thoughts against my…
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Dream 1
A vivid dream left me waking up shivering with excitement to write it down. It started with many images of happiness and heaven: I was taking my family – Maggie and Amos, parents, brother and sister in law – to the Hungarian Pastry Shop on Amsterdam Avenue, near Columbia University in Manhattan. There a church…
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Meditation 1
May my consciousness be removed from attachment to my body May my body-consciousness be expanded My my body’s precious self-consciousness be relaxed As when I sleep, and my body is blessed, yet my awareness is transported, let it be now, though I am awake. Dear precious body, you are loved and blessed. Nothing is wrong…
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Blog 2
This is the inane selfreferentiality of writing, that the first “blog” piece, the written record of what I have to say (or so it feels to me as I write), should be about writing such a blog, and the second should be about the form of the writing. What is a blog? This is distinctly…
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Blog 1
To write a blog, to write in direct relation to my day to day experience. Not planning some other work but just writing, recording, and creating. My romance for writing comes from seeing written works from my dad, grandpa, and great uncle on the large bookshelf in the living room of my home as a…
Iain Atkinson 