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Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Mistakes: Alchemy"
Sent May 20th 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Mistakes: Alchemy" NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Mistakes" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Mistakes: Alchemy Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder Many of my older clients are disturbed by what they see as lost opportunities, wrong choices, wasted years. Even my younger clients, some only in their mid-twenties, often compare themselves to their peers and find their own lives wanting – they...
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas on Wattpad.com!
Sent May 19th 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas on Wattpad.com! I've "published" the 39 chapters of Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas that I've created so far on Wattpad.com. Wattpad lets you read through the book like ... a book! As always, comments welcome. Here's what I have so far: http://www.wattpad.com/story/5697085-fifty-two-flower-mandalas More anon, David ...
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Miracles: Yellow brick roads"
Sent May 8th 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Miracles: Yellow brick roads" NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Miracles" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Miracles: Yellow brick roads Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder I am a miracle worker by trade. Or more precisely, a facilitator of miracles. I make this claim sans grandiosity. My miracle-making abilities are as ordinary as those of the Wizard of Oz, an old man behind a curtain whose o...
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Miracles: Yellow brick roads"
Sent May 8th 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Miracles: Yellow brick roads" NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Miracles" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Miracles: Yellow brick roads Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder I am a miracle worker by trade. Or more precisely, a facilitator of miracles. I make this claim sans grandiosity. My miracle-making abilities are as ordinary as those of the Wizard of Oz, an old man behind a curtain whose o...
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Love: Essentials" (first draft)
Sent May 3rd 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Love: Essentials" (first draft) NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Love" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Love: Essentials Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder When I was 25, living in Manhattan and trying to jump start a career in writing and photography, I visited my parents and brothers in Buffalo two or three times a year. On those trips, I also saw my maternal grandmother, Bubby. Although ...
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Longing: Inclinations"
Sent April 24th 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Longing: Inclinations" NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Longing" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Longing: Inclinations Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder A writer I knew some years ago collected her poems into a book she planned to call /The Color of Longing/. My longings have come in many colors and many shades. Much of my life has been spent in a condition of longing: longing for love fi...
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Listening: Self, others" (first draft)
Sent April 17th 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Listening: Self, others" (first draft) NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Listening" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Listening: Self, others Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder Central to the near-death experience I had in Albany, NY, 20 years ago was multiple failures to listen – my own to the inner voice of my intuition, and others to my fears. Early in my recovery, I traveled to see my fam...
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Limitation: Liberation" (first draft)
Sent April 9th 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Limitation: Liberation" (first draft) NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Limitation" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Limitation: Liberation Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder Most of us associate choice with freedom, and as a freedom-loving nation we have responded by creating more and more choices. We grow up being told we can do "anything." In our stores and on the Internet we ca...
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Justice: Metamorphosis" (first draft)
Sent March 31st 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Justice: Metamorphosis" (first draft) NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Justice" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Justice: Metamorphosis Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder In the late 1950s, psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg observed that as we mature, we move progressively through three basic levels of moral development. At the /pre-conventional/ levels, our sense of justice is self-centered, ...
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Joy: Openings" (first draft)
Sent March 26th 2013
Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Joy: Openings" (first draft) NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Joy" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Joy: Openings Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder What draws many of us to babies is how they seem to experience life with excitement and wonder. This is our natural state, of joy in being alive and in the world. Unfortunately, life experiences and our self-protective responses to them, somet...
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