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		<title>How to Re-Occupy Your Mind &#8211; writing workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ June 5, 2012; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] This writing and meditation workshop is a benefit for the very cool 826 Seattle, a nonprofit space traveler &#38; literacy drop-in center, and the Seattle chapter of novelist Dave Eggers' 826 National network of writing and tutoring centers. 826 Seattle sponsors an adult workshop series, entitled How to Write Like I Do, as a benefit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vortext! a 3-day writing workshop at Hedgebrook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ June 1, 2012 to June 3, 2012. ] Vortext is a very special three day women's writing workshop that I'm going to be leading, along with Dorothy Allison, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth George, Jane Hamilton, and Gail Tsukiyama on June 1 - 3, at Hedgebrook. This is an outstanding line-up of writers, and the only problem is that I'm teaching, too, so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>editorial assistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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This is my bad cat, Weens. When I took this picture, he was helping me edit the manuscript for my new novel, A Tale for the Time Being, which you can see, glowing on the screen behind him. He is lying on top of my Chicago Manual of Style, and also on top of In the Beginning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Too many Ps”? &#8211; a reading &amp; conversation at UC Santa Cruz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ April 5, 2012; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes - a conversation about the politics of food and kinship and other world-changing matters, at U.C. Santa Cruz on April 5, 2012 from 2 - 5pm. I will be reading from All Over Creation and then will join specialists in the fields of geography, anthropology and agroecology for a conversation hosted by Joan [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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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>
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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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