{"id":523,"date":"2008-09-01T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/09\/will-we-leave-singing\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T11:05:00","slug":"will-we-leave-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/09\/will-we-leave-singing.html","title":{"rendered":"Will We Leave Singing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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This is a transition day for me, usually bigger than New Year\u2019s. The summer ends today and the school year begins tomorrow. So I\u2019m in a reflective mood about the past year, the next year, and how swiftly this is all going.<\/span>\n

Like some people do on New Year\u2019s, I usually cook up a couple-three focus areas for the year \u2013 without contrivance, it just seems to be the way I do life. Last year at this time I had a heap of work with getting <\/span><\/p><\/span>Keep Me In Your Heart Awhile<\/span><\/a><\/span> finished and also went back to graduate school. Now that the book is done and my grad school program is completed, I\u2019m putting Zen practice\/teaching back at the top of my priorities along with some personal-life stuff. <\/span>\n


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And, by the way, dear reader, I\u2019ll begin soon setting up some traveling for 2009 to talk about the book so if you would like me to visit your local Zen center or church or what-have-you and give a talk or lead a sesshin or what-not, let me know.
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Anyway, what\u2019s on my mind more than <\/span>promoting<\/span><\/span> the book is aging and how little time there really is left. <\/span><\/div>\n

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A couple things have provoked this <\/span>melancholy<\/span><\/span>. I was up in northern Minnesota for my mother\u2019s birthday yesterday. She is doing pretty darn well, as we say up there, although my dad, pushing 80, has some nagging issues and pains that seem to be getting to him more than he\u2019ll admit (also like we do up there). <\/span><\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, I spoke on the phone with a good friend with cancer a couple days back who is recovering from recent surgery. An unexpected side effect is that they messed up the way that air passes over the vocal cords so he is still whispering several weeks after the surgery. They may be able to fix this shortly \u2026 but there are no <\/span>guarantees<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Anyway, in terms of leaving this camp site singing, we may not even get out of this with our voices. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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