http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog restoring our sense of cyclical time Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:47:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An article in the NY Times -- Evolution of the God Gene, by Nicholas Wade -- lays out nicely and concisely the evidence that we're hard-wired for religion. On a personal level, I read it and thought, "No wonder I can't stop trying." What I still say we really need ... http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=29 Jay Griffiths articulates what it's like to live in modern techno-time better than anyone else I've read on the subject, and gives a sense of what we're missing -- no mean feat to write so eloquently from both inside and outside one's own culture. She is by turns brilliant, say, ... http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=23 Hmmmmm. OK, for the first 3/4 of the book, I happily suspended disbelief and enjoyed the well-paced narrative. But there was a particular plot twist where my suspended disbelief reasserted itself, and it seemed to me that the plot unraveled into the various strands of what the book is trying ... http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=18 December 21, 2012, is like Y2K in that no one knows what exactly if anything to expect. Why expect anything? Based on my reading – not extensive first-hand research, but a sense of what various experts are saying – our earth, the sun, and the center of the galaxy will ... http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=14 What is a planner, if not a place to express intentions? It's not so much about managing time as it is about managing intentions.  It would be presumptuous to say that Whole Time Planners are an antidote to some of the baggage of monotheism, but it's tempting. http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=5 The interior pages for the 2009 Whole Time Planner are now available as a free pdf download at wholetimeplanners.com. It's my gift to the world, recognition that the times, they are a changin'. In fact, I started using this unbound edition on Jan. 20, 2009, which was the day that ... http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=9 I just reread Mama Day by Gloria Naylor, one of my all-time favorite books. You talk about your primal earth mother, matriarch, offspring-protector, healer, midwife, and southern woman – that’s her! Mama Day, the title character, is a direct descendant of the Mother of all Days, as Naylor puts it.  I’d been ... http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=8 Science and religion need each other, or maybe it's that the future of life as we know it will depend on science and religion learning to love one another. My observations from a reasonable amount of experience with both world views are that: 1) They really don't have to be contradictory. ... http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=7 I just reread The Dance of Life, by E.T. Hall, and discovered how much it has influenced my thinking over the years. I have no idea why or where I bought it at some point in the 1990s, other than it must have looked interesting. "I have come to the conclusion ... http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=6 Calendars are like game boards for our lives. The object?   I've been told:   1) "Life is a process of becoming whole."   2) At the end of your life, the only two questions that are going to matter are, "How much have you loved?" and "How much have you learned?"   My advice?   Spend some slow time ... http://wholetimeplanners.com/blog/?p=1