"The invitation from Papaji, when he says, "to stop," is really to stop telling your story. For one instant. Less than an instant. Stop telling your story. Even if it is a good story, just stop, and immediately the truth is told. You cannot tell your story if you are telling the truth. And you cannot tell the truth if you are telling your story. It is so obvious, isn't it?"
                         Gangaji, smart lady, poet-philosopher.

"Start living out loud, without your story, like you've never been hurt or had to say you're sorry."
                         Cory Sipper, damned good singer-songwriter, from from                                                       "Living Out Loud," off the new CD Sincerely

"Tell the story you are dying to tell. That is the story you will tell the best"
                                       Sign on my refrigerator for the last 100 years.

After spending so much time debating whether to blurt it out or bury it deep or let it go, I've come to a soft-belly place of acceptance, a place beyond one way or the other, a place that suggests we're given our incredible, improbable, confusing stories to tell so we can be free of them. At least that's the thinking behind this page. We'll see if it works....Eddie Ellner

28 Parker Way, around the corner from the SB Roasting Company.
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