The 60-Second Sabbath

journal

  • The Random Pen

    My pen, I realize,has made its own stray marks on the pageas I dozed off–stray marksor a cryptic messagefrom my subconscious? Some do look like letters–perhaps even words;decipherable,with an imaginative stretch:perhaps"let go,"or,"less goo,"or,"left again." Maybe the ambiguity is intentional,and whatever… Continue reading

  • Artist’s Studio

    To some, it's merely a notebook,ruled lines on unnumbered pages,blue words floating on cream-colored paper. To me it's a pool of secrets.Holding my breath, I plunge through the pages,never knowing when or where I'll surface. Or if. Text and image… Continue reading

  • Core Word #5: Paradox

    My dad once owned a sailboat with another physician. They named her Paradox. Get it? I appreciated the pun then, and I appreciate the concept now. Paradox means holding two opposing, contradictory points as equally true. If you need everything… Continue reading

  • On Journaling

    Journaling can be good and healthy and helpful. Journaling can also bog us down. Some of us journal and rehash all the things that we obsess about anyway, so the journaling is just an extension of our usual mental clutter.… Continue reading