My sharing strategy

The core of my jiyū shūkyō life is the daily practice of mindfulness, writing, and study. This daily practice at the center of my daily routine births intermediate writing artifacts in my talahardin. Whatever I share out into the world (except when sharing something spontaneously) begins in my talahardin. Therefore, whatever I share is rooted in this daily practice of mindfulness, writing, and study. They move outwards. I try my best to resist turning the process upside-down (i.e., responding to an outside prompt, need, or call). This is not a hard and fast rule and I allow myself to break it sometimes. But it is an ideal I want to aspire to and keep.

Here is two things to remind myself about my general approach to sharing and publication:

The more rooted my daily practices, the more alive and effortless my outward sharing will feel.

If you ever feel tension between practice and publication, return to practice—that’s your real home. Your readers will feel the strength of that rootedness.

My sharing strategy follows a cycle that uses the week as its unit of time:

1. Monday to Friday: Purely inner work—daily mindfulness, writing, and study. This will naturally birth artifacts in my talahardin, which includes my journal. This process also includes my weekly photo and writing walk, usually scheduled in Wednesday. This time is also used to develop book projects.
2. Saturday: Review existing notes in my talahardin and choose two to three that could be developed into social media posts. The posts could be a poem, an excerpt from an essay, a micro-essay, or a vignette. To keep things simple for now, just partner these with a photograph or a set of photographs. After developing these posts, I automate their sharing by scheduling their posting in the following week.
3. Sunday: This day is dedicated for developing a newsletter issue. I'm moving away from purely narrative work to lyric philosophy (or lyrical philosophy), similar to what David Whyte is doing. Therefore, what will be shared in my newsletter are also what is in my talahardin but more developed and lengthier (see collection of my lyrical philosophy). The newsletter could be in the form of a poem, an essay, or an update. While I aspire to share at least one work in my newsletter per week, I don't force this and aim to at least share one every two weeks.