Tag Archives: writing
Driving through Andalusia
I spent Saturday morning putting the finishing touches on the test I had to write to complete my meditation training. The dining room table is still covered in books, notebooks and highlighters. While writing out the answers (longhand, gadzooks!), I had an unexpected memory come back from my travels in Spain. A truly beautiful memory [...]
Meditating writers. Writing meditators.
This January, I took meditation training at naada yoga. These are some reflections and observations culled from the experience. Excerpt from the meditation journal: This idea of breaking with the stories that we tell ourselves about who we are and what we’re experiencing –> I spend so much time in my life making up stories [...]
Fiction: Marie-Anne and the glasses
These snippets are not in chronological order. The last scribblings I published take place after Marie-Anne and him are lovers. This one takes place before. ———— Marie-Anne felt the music moving up her back, lifting her shoulder blades and then travelling down her arms and out her fingertips. She surrendered to abandon and the darkness [...]
New fiction: Marie-Anne on Monday morning
Marie-Anne still woke up early on Monday mornings for yoga at the studio. She took the metro at 6:15 and was able to get on the mat by 7:00. She tried not to hurry the practice but she did sometimes skip over some of the sitting postures to get back on the metro by quarter [...]
Writing fiction: The dilemma of good endings
My number one reason for being disappointed with a book or short story? The ending. Either the writer chooses a dénouement that doesn’t fit with the personalities or plot points introduced, or the writer so inadequately resolves the circumstances and themes explored that the reader feels cheated. In essence, a disappointing ending does a disservice [...]
New fiction: Marie-Anne and her stomach
“You’re just attracted to the person who you think he is. You don’t know him well. If you did, you might not feel this way,” S. reasoned. “No. You’re wrong,” Marie-Anne replied quickly, but did not go any further, unsure of what else she could say. How to explain that the problem was with her [...]
Another snippet of writing
Jan hadn’t really wanted to watch a romantic comedy tonight. But there hadn’t been anything else at the video place and this romcom promised to be different. There were no marquee actors in it, the soundtrack was suitably alternative and the trailers left some doubt about the happily-ever-after ending. Perfect for a rainy Tuesday night. [...]
New fiction: Marie-Anne and the dishes
Found scribbled in the back pages of my agenda. Written during a lull at Webcom last November 17. He was washing the dishes as they spoke on the telephone. Marie-Anne recognized the cascade of water as it rolled across a dish, broke into fat drops and then pattered against the steel sink in a crescendo [...]
Writing yogis. Yogi writers.
With another session of our yoga and writing workshop coming up this September 26, I’ve been answering a lot of questions about the connection between these two activities. “Um, how can you do yoga and write at the same time?” The conversation that follows usually touches on liberating expression by first silencing the ego and [...]
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New fiction: Eddy takes a yoga class