Conversation
In this new blog I’d like to begin a conversation with my readers. I sometimes think of writing a book as taking a million thoughts and squeezing them into the space of a few thousand. There’s always much more left over than included. That means there is plenty of material for consideration.
The word “blog” is an odd one. Apparently it comes from weblog, but that’s a strange way to create a word. It reminds me of the phrase from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, a phrase that years ago Michael Sexson pointed out to me: “In the buginning is the woid, in the muddle is the soundance.” I’m sure there will be bugs in this blog. Maybe I should call it a blug. And I certainly intend emptiness in the Zen sense in my woids (word + void). And I hope the whole thing is a soundance.
To get on with the blug: I’ve just completed yet another summer’s week teaching psychiatrists, social workers and therapists on Cape Cod. I enjoy working for Dr. Rob Guerette, founder and president of the New England Educational Institute, and so this is about the 15th year I’ve been teaching at what I call Sheraton University in Eastham, Massachusetts. (We hold our sessions at the Sheraton there.) I snapped the photo when walking behind members of my family.
It seems I have a publisher for my translation of the Gospels. I haven’t had official notice yet, so I’ll wait a while to tell you who. I feel lifted by this development because I think that the Gospels have often been misread over the past two millennia because of bad translations.
I’m writing a reflection every day for twitter. You’re welcome to become a follower. And an app for Care of the Soul should appear very soon. If the app is popular, I could write one for all the books. We’ll see. I’ve always enjoyed short statements like the adagia of Wallace Stevens and the fragments of Novalis. Twitter invites that kind of poetry.
Give me some feedback. Keep in touch with Deborah Jessop on the Barque blog. And visit my wife’s website for news of her painting projects (very exciting at the moment) and her new book Art & Yoga.
