Andrew Furst's Blog, page 160
August 1, 2014
Glimpses On a Friday Morning Walk
Morning Walk Friday Morning Walk Capturing the neighborhood One glimpse at a time
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July 31, 2014
One Minute Meditation – Mindfulness with the Bees
One of the benefits of unemployment is enjoying mindfulness meditation in the garden at lunchtime. These balloon flowers are the pride and joy of my wife’s terrace plantings. The colors are stunning. Today the bees were, well, busy. It was a beautiful 80 degrees and my dog and I sat in the yard each with […]
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July 26, 2014
Please, Buy From An Indie Bookstore
I have my heart set on you purchasing my book, Western Lights, from an Indie Bookstore. They gave me a leg up by putting it on their shelves. Please keep these folks in business. Buy my book and others from them! Looking For An Indie Bookstore to Buy Western Lights? Support an Indie Bookstore and order now! Western […]
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July 24, 2014
One Minute Meditation – Buddhism and Loss
Your best teacher is always with you in the form of life itself. It’s ups and downs provide with everything you need to learn about suffering and the causes of suffering. My lesson last week was being laid off. What does Buddhism tell us about loss? Buddhism and Loss Last week I noticed a lot of little […]
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July 19, 2014
How I Met My Crowdfunding Goal on Indiegogo
About 2/3rds of the way through my crowdfunding campaign, I engaged a company call GoGoRocket to increase my projects ranking on Indiegogo. They have a multi-part strategy that includes a self marketing effort and a monster social media blast from them. I hemmed and hawed over whether I should engage a service to boost my fund raising. […]
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July 18, 2014
Free – A Senryu on Liberation
Free Set free from the binds of teacher and business. The honey is sweet I am free. Yesterday was a day of liberation; sharp and shocking. I am basking in the weightlessness, if not a little worried. I am settling on what’s important, and touching the ground below me. I am alright. My head knows its true, and my […]
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July 17, 2014
One Minute Meditation – Mount Watatic Forest Stream
I had a bachelor weekend at the end of June. My wife and kids were in Maine and I needed some exercise. So I hopped on the interwebs to find a small mountain to climb. I found Mount Watatic. It’s a 1,832 foot monadnock near the New Hampshire border. The trail head is on Route 119 […]
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July 16, 2014
Support Porter Square Books in Cambridge
Head on over to Porter Square Books in Cambridge if you can. You can support an independent book store and me by purchasing my first book Western Lights: A Collection of Short Essays on Buddhism there. You’ll get a better price than Amazon and you’ll be helping out a local business. Support Porter Square Books Porter […]
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July 12, 2014
The Garden Audience – Haiku on the Terrace
The Garden Audience Looking on faces We see ourselves being in and out, connected Haiku on the summer terrace garden at my home. Thank you Samantha.
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Putting It Off (Excerpt from Western Lights)
A Short Essay from Western Lights It’s a Guild cutaway acoustic guitar with Fishman pickups. It has an onboard tuner and EQ. The sound is big and so is the price tag. The running joke whenever I walk into a guitar shop is, “I’m just going in to get some strings…oh, and they might have […]
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