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About meI'm the author of the linked short story collection, IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, published in September 2009 by Press 53.

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Member sinceJun 25, 2006

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The Things They Carried

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Women Up On Blocks by Mary Akers

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The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Carol Fisher Saller

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Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

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Stories in the Key of C. Minor. by Russell Bittner

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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

The love and peace of higher consciousness flow from just being - and enjoying it all. Anything you do will not be enough unless you feel fulfilled in just being. Usually we are not happy when we find doing whatever it is that we think we have to do. Doing creates expectations that your world and the people around you may or may not fit. The things we do disappear in time. We must learn to appreciate just being alive in the nowness of whatever situation we are in.
- Ken Keyes in "Handbook to Higher Consciousness"

The meaning of here and now is beautifully illustrated by a Zen story of a monk who was being chased by two tigers. He came to the edge of a cliff. He looked back - the tigers were almost upon him. Noticing a vine leading over the cliff, he quickly crawled over the edge and began to let himself down the vine. Then as he checked below, he saw two tigers waiting for him at the bottom of the cliff. He looked up and observed that two mice were knawing away at the vine. Just then, he saw a beautiful strawberry within arm's reach. He picked it and enjoyed the best tasting strawberry in his whole life!
- Ken Keyes in "Handbook to Higher Consciousness"

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