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February 13, 2006
What more could you ask for?
My partner woke up at 5 am to go and get supplies (organic fruit and vegetables) for the commercial kitchen and I began to surface out of dreamland. I'd like to get out of bed, I thought to myself. But I couldn't quite get the dream, and as I've been in love with my own excercise, I tried to mimic dream state.
The way into this state is to use what I understand from Eckhardt Tolle's book Being in the Now. I try and 'die' to myself, purposefully forgetting that I have a history, letting go of all the meaningful facts that compose who I am. My brain goes into a kind of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and my mind gives off a death rattle; I get a feeling that might translate into I'm bored Get me outta here I want to wake up properly This is all bullshit. If I succeed in handling the brain static, I fall back into the dream.
This time, I fell back into sleep! And had a whole other series of vivid dreams which will inform my next writing spree (if I can get all my work done today with some hours leftover). My writing mates on Zoe are having a ball with the excercise and I love what they are producing. Am I biased?
Also, I'm happy today. I have discovered the Track Changes and Comments function in MS Word. So my swapping of my novel pages with a friend is reaching new levels. I've used it years ago when Jodi Daynard at the Boston Review was editing my story prior to publication, but I was a 'passive' user.
Not only have I found life after Word, but there is a tray of organic peaches on my kitchen table. This is the season (mark my diary) when stone fruit are at their best. And tonight, I'm going to a demo of a new-fangled cooking gadget where you chop, blend, cook etc all in the one machine. I can already see myself -- writing on the banks of a river with the sun on my face and my trusty gadget in attendance.
Okay, back to work.
Posted by girija at February 13, 2006 12:42 PM