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Friends:
“We live in a state of radical uncertainty. The first step is to accept it.” Writes Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities /Columbia, in the NYT editorial “No One Knows What’s Going to Happen.” Lilla continues: “The history of humanity is the history of impatience. Not only do we want knowledge of the future, we want it when we want it. The Book of Job condemns as prideful this desire for immediate attention. Speaking out of the whirlwind, God makes it clear that he is not a vending machine.”
Of course, the brilliant teacher Pema Chodren addressed this topic in “Comfortable with Uncertainty.”
Meaningless deaths, epic meanness and just plain cluelessness abounds. We empaths are left, shaking heads but can’t shake hands. Exasperated, incensed, humbled and enraged.
What words can be spoken in such an incomprehensible time? I have none, but I do turn to my teachers at these times. I hope you will take a moment also to listen in to a podcast from Spirit Rock, Zen Center or On Being.
For the time being, I deliver a diversion:
“Extreme” is coming July 14th.
PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN
See the media coverage from the Hollywood Times and WUSA9:
MEDIA CLIPS
ONWARD
This Saturday!
Zoom class “You can be a winning writer”
Sponsored by Women’s National Book Association, SF chapter:
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UPCOMING EVENT
Friday, June 5th
Shade Press
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Saturday, July 11
California Writers Club, Orange Country Chapter
“You Can Be a Winning Writer”
Zoom link coming
NEW NEWS
“The Blues” Won First Place
Women’s National Book Association Writing Contest
“Pivot” won 3rd place
What I’m reading:
“Nine Perfect Strangers” Liane Moriarty
“It All Comes Back to You”
And, in the New Yorker, “The Fire Gilder,” by Eavan Boland:
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