Dear Friends,
Firstly, apologies for yesterday’s confusing post. I have been ill during this last week, and I was working late. The actual blog entry has been amended, to show what you should have received, if you would like to see it.
In a more general sense, I’m writing, now, to explain what’s happening with this blog, in case I have caused some confusion.
By all appearances, it should have finished. I died, after all, back in February. J On the other hand, on two counts I feel encouraged to write a book on the subject that emerged during those eight or nine months of writing.
Firstly, as I wrote, it became clear to me that there was sufficient value in the approach for me to consider turning it into a book, after I complete the initial task – which was: a blog written over the remaining months of my then current A Year to Live practice.
Secondly, during that time I had a number of suggestions, from readers who found the writing helpful to their path, encouraging me to publish it as a book. It was a joy to hear the particular points that people treasured, and to think that I was in some small way a help to their interior life.
So, I’m now going through the posts – culling, rewriting, and re-ordering them. It’s an interesting and enjoyable process – just as engrossing as the original creation – and it’s a fitting commitment during my current year of A Year to Live (which I began at the end of March); that is, to try and edit a new entry each day. With a chronic illness and my other commitments, it isn’t always possible, but it’s an inspiring commitment, and a labour of love.
I began to write another blog/book, over at thefocusingmandala.com.au, which is much more complex, phenomenologically. Its subject matter which is also something very dear to my heart However, it came to me, as I began editing the death and dying project, that it was going to take a lot more work than I realised – not only because it meant rewriting, but reordering in the light of a very different genre of publishing. So, I couldn’t give both these projects my full attention. I had to choose between them. Having already committed to this one, I realised I would pull back from the other. (Perhaps I’ll live long enough to complete both.)
If you stay, the posts will each be edited, some will be dropped out altogether, and some will be edited and relocated. Hopefully more coherence will emerge in the whole. If you stay, I hope you enjoy and benefit. I’ll try to activate the comments section, so that you can share your responses, if you wish.
You may want to stay with this ‘death and dying’ course, or you may wish to de-register. There’s an unsubscribe link, at the bottom of each post.
Wishing you all, in your path, much joy, and a deep appreciation of the basic beauty of being.
Metta,
Christopher.