I don’t know if you are aware, but I’m gathering these pieces on the early Buddhist approach to Death and Dying together, to make a book from them. Thanks for the feedback you’ve given me along the way.
It’s a rewarding project, but it’s reached a point lately where I have to sit down and do a lot of editing work. For instance, I have to go through every piece I’ve written over the last year and a half and see where it fits in the overall scheme. (I’ve got a broad outline, sketched out.) Until I do this, it’s a little confusing how the big picture is unfolding.
This means I’ll undertake, over the coming weeks, a painstaking process involving: reading through of each post, categorising each one, and managing the overall sorting process. I really can’t write any more pieces until I know how the whole thing is going.
I started this process on Subhana and Joyce’s bi-annual Creativity retreat recently, and it was really very helpful. It means a lot of thinking of a different sort than I do in the actual writing, though. Thank the Kosmos (and Literature and Latte) for Scrivener, to achieve this task with the minimum pain!
So, I’m sorry to say that it’s a choice presently between daily writing and this nitty-gritty editing process. Hence, I’ve decided to write to you only once a week, until this is done. Hopefully it won’t take long. Thanks again to you my readers. One reason that the voice has not been hard to find for this writing is because I think of you, and write directly for you.