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		<title>Writing Sesshin: a guided writing and meditation retreat @ Hollyhock</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ June 29, 2012 to July 4, 2012. ] The word "sesshin" in Japanese means "touching the mind" or "touching the heart."  Sesshin is a special time in the Zen Buddhist calendar, when monastics step away from their everyday schedule and dedicate full days to meditation practice. As writers, we need these same periods of retreat and intensive practice to deepen and clarify our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-training the Writer&#8217;s Mind @ Taos Writers Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ July 15, 2012 to July 22, 2012. ] This summer I'll be teaching Re-training the Writer's Mind at the Taos Writers Conference. I haven't visited Taos for many years, and I'm really looking forward to it!

Here's a link to a version of the workshop that I taught at Hedgebrook. The content will be similar, a five-day workshop with a focus on developing meditation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain Free: a creative conversation with Ruth Ozeki &amp; Susan Squier</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ January 5, 2012; 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm. ] 2012 Modern Language Association Convention

143. A Creative Conversation: Ruth Ozeki with Susan Squier

Thursday, 05 January
7:00–8:15 p.m., 604, Washington State Convention Center

Ruth Ozeki and Susan Squier will have a conversation on the theme Pain Free. Their conversation will wander from such agricultural innovations as genetically engineering animals so that they feel no pain, to questions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guided Writing Intensive &#8211; a summer writing workshop at Hollyhock</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ August 12, 2011 to August 17, 2011. ] I'm really excited to be collaborating this summer with my friend, Linda Solomon, in leading a six day intensive writing retreat at Hollyhock. Linda and I love teaching together. While the focus of our writing is somewhat different--Linda is a journalist and writes non-fiction, and I write more fiction and poetry--we both have experience writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Training the Writer&#8217;s Mind &#8211; redux!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ June 10, 2011 to June 17, 2011. ] I'm delighted to say that I've been invited back to Hedgebrook to do another Master Class this summer!

Here's the blurb:
A writer’s mind is her most important tool. We rely on our minds to be quick and associative, dogged and diligent, and above all to maintain the quiet, steady focus necessary to reach into the heart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>baby priestlet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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The significance of headshaving is complex. Certainly it&#8217;s a symbolic act of renunciation, of cutting ties with the world. But it also felt like a kind of liberation, and after my head was shaved, I felt light-headed and clear, like a weight had been lifted. I could feel every cool and ephemeral breeze and glint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ordination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is it. Today I go into retreat. In a week from today, I&#8217;ll be shaving my head and being ordaining as a Soto Zen Buddhist priest. People keep asking me why. Why am I doing this? What does it mean? I try to answer. I talk about how profoundly Zen practice has helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Fact into Fiction: writing workshop   September 10 &#8211; 11, Vancouver</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ September 10, 2010 to September 11, 2010. ] All fiction, even the wildest and most speculative, is rooted (where else?) in an author's life and experience. But even the most truthful, precise and accurate recounting, be it historical, autobiographical or journalistic, is never entirely what it seems. So where is the border between fact and fiction? Does it exist, and if so, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>waiting for nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been writing well these days, which means I’ve been feeling well, too.
This is different than feeling good, although as it happens, I&#8217;ve been feeling good, too: happy, excited, eager to get back to the page. But that’s not what I’m talking about.
My point here is that I’ve been feeling well, which is to say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Way With Words: Writing &amp; Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ June 4, 2010 to June 9, 2010. ] My friend Kate McCandless and I will be giving another A Way  with  Words workshop at Hollyhock this summer, focusing once again on  writing  and meditation. Kate is a Zen priest, and poet, and a wonderful  and  compassionate teacher and friend. She be helping me lead the   [...]]]></description>
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