My ministry
Daily
Morning
- Morning seiza meditation
- Five-minute journal
- Journaling
- Mindful reading
- Talahardin
Afternoon
- Connecting with friends
Evening
- Night walk
- Evening seiza meditation
Weekly
- Weekly readings with Lea
- Wednesday: Morning nature solo walk retreat
- Seiza meditation with group via class
- Sunday: Newsletter sermon
- (Goal): Weekly gathering with free religion friends
Monthly
- Monthly moai guided walks
- Monthly uman articles
==Writing seems to have replaced religion when I left the JWs. But most of my experience of writing is inward and solitary. So, one thing I'm considering is making this outward (i.e., facilitating writing). I wonder how I might use teaching writing to encourage people to embrace a free, creative spirituality.
Question: How to apply what Olson is saying in my own art?
"Olson tells us that the work of the morning “is methodology: how to use oneself, and on what”
The first work and dogma (necessary know-how) is “How by form, to get the content instant”. By this Olson means he wants us to create things where the form they take perfectly, and immediately, expresses the content; where our poetry, music, acts of social justice and worship, are the fullest possible expressions of ourselves and not merely inauthentic, arty or moralistic clothing.
- I wanted to continue enriching my writing and photography practice. But I don't want to engage with them merely for aesthetics. How can I use writing and photography not just to express myself beautifully but also to help me practice a free, creative spirituality?
- Started reading Lawrence Buell's Literary Transcendentalism: the transcendentalists had a similar project.