This is my five minutes of freewriting after three minutes of mindful breath awareness on 1.29.09

It is amazing how quickly by body can get back into the groove of meditation--it is like jumping into the diving pool with the confidence that you'll know how to swim once you are wet--and you do. Getting wet in class is a bonus; I have a practice informally established that I do daily--several times a day, depending on whether or not I feel I need to do so.

Boice

I'm delighted to learn that Boice is to be part of this class in composition, because I think he gets to the root of any problems writers have and has strategies to patiently improve the entire process of writing. I know I am a different writer after reading his work last semester and I imagine that I will benefit from a second intense exposure. Instead of waiting until the last second for everything, I find that I have the forethought to begin to think and write about a topic without a clear view of how I'll end the piece; I'm sure that this less frantic pace can only improve the quality of my output, although I may want to write more than I need to because I have the time to do so. Waiting is an excellent quality, but I wait better if I put something in the water to contemplate--like fishing, I bait my hook with a brief start and then sit back and see what happens next. I'm forcing this a little right now, but just because I want to get something posted on this blog--so I'm really baiting the hook of this repository for my writing, then will see what shows up here during the semester.