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2014 In Review - Evan Dower
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Hi family and friends! I wanted to tell everybody about my year, and it was way too much to put in a Christmas card, so here we are. I spent 2014 happily single, with negligible dating, but lots of blossoming friendships. I celebrated the marriage and pregnancy of close friends. I saw lots of circus shows and lots of shows with circus friends (thanks to a weekly Game of Thrones party). I took lots of circus classes, growing closer to the circus community and getting stronger. While I was in school, I got...
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Meditation: 2013-11-06 - Evan Dower
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Wednesday morning: 30 minutes. All that means I got to bed late, and thus woke up late. I meditated anyway, though, even prioritizing it over showering. (I smell just fine.). I did an Anapanasati-style breathing meditation, which I find is largely about paying attention to myself in increasingly subtle ways. I kind of wanted to follow it up with an Upekkha Bhavana meditation, but I figured I had better not push it on what felt like my first day back on track, and I felt the need to head in to work.
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Schema Therapy - Evan Dower
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I recently made a web-based version of the test. You should take it, partly because I'm interested to hear if you find it helpful, and partly because it took me about 12 hours to put it together. Check it out here:. Http:/ www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-ysqs2-test. Want to know what this site is all about? Want to only read posts in certain categories? I'll tell you what and how. Evan Dower meditates every day. Evan Dower would like you to know what's going on. Evan Dower has opinions.
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Tuesday: 20 minutes at the center. I started with Mudita Bhavana,. Because that's what we were supposed. To be doing. After a while, though, I felt that I was building without a foundation. I hadn't given myself enough attention at the beginning to really see where I was coming from, so I abandoned the Mudita Bhavana and just sat with myself and some curio. During the metta portion, I had a feeling of being very small in a very large space while simultaneously suffusing the entire space. The Facebook...
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I recently made a web-based version of the test. You should take it, partly because I'm interested to hear if you find it helpful, and partly because it took me about 12 hours to put it together. Check it out here:. Http:/ www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-ysqs2-test. Want to know what this site is all about? Want to only read posts in certain categories? I'll tell you what and how. Evan Dower meditates every day. Evan Dower would like you to know what's going on. Evan Dower has opinions.
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Meditation: 2013-11-12 - Evan Dower
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Tuesday morning: 30 minutes. Another lovely morning meditation with Dan and Nancy. I managed to speed things up a bit, so that I went through an abbreviated Anapanasati in the first 12 minutes, then did the self-metta stage of the Metta Bhavana for 6 minutes, and finished up with the other 4 stages of the Metta Bhavana in the last 12 minutes. I was really pleased with how well it seemed to go, and the challenge of doing it quickly. Tuesday evening: 30 minutes at the center. I'll tell you what and how.
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One Sick Puppy - Evan Dower
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At the clinic, they actually seemed most concerned about the raw area on her leg. They took her back and trimmed it so we could see what was going on and treat it. They were also going to extract urine directly from her bladder with a syringe, assuming that an ultrasound indicated it was big enough. I heard. We ended getting a bunch of stuff to take home:. A cone of shame. An antibiotic that will address both the infected leg wound and the UTI. Antibiotic/steroid ointment for the leg wound. That's just w...
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100 Feet South of Normal - Evan Dower
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100 Feet South of Normal. The past week and a half or so have been eventful. There's been an office move planned for a while. Our desks are moving about 100 feet south. We're mostly just rearranging people and teams on the same floor. It seems silly to me. This past week was the Triratna Buddhist Community's International Urban Retreat. It was really great to meditate twice each day, to have Dan and Nancy meditate with me in the mornings, and to go to the center each evening. It was also exhausti...It's ...
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Dignified Money: Capital Gains and Earned Income. Earned income is taxed at up to 39.6% once you start making a lot of money. It starts at a minimum of 10%, and that's only for people who are pretty poor. Anyone making a living wage pays at least 15%, and to have any kind of sense of security requires getting into at least the 25% bracket. Meanwhile, long term capital gains are taxed. Here's my very simple proposal: include capital gains as part of "adjusted gross income", the number on which normal inco...
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Hi family and friends! I wanted to tell everybody about my year, and it was way too much to put in a Christmas card, so here we are. I spent 2014 happily single, with negligible dating, but lots of blossoming friendships. I celebrated the marriage and pregnancy of close friends. I saw lots of circus shows and lots of shows with circus friends (thanks to a weekly Game of Thrones party). I took lots of circus classes, growing closer to the circus community and getting stronger. While I was in school, I got...
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