http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/13/long-time-no-post-reflections-on-coming-home/ Doing Well is Being Well Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:25:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/13/long-time-no-post-reflections-on-coming-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1281 Etc. | Oleoptene Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:01:35 +0000 http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=231#comment-1281 [...] On an unrelated note, but among recent preoccupations, I wasn’t just going to blather on about Infinite Jest, but one of the bits I most appreciated was a character commenting on the state of “humble frustration” that allows one to proceed from one plateau of development to another, and the character was talking about tennis, but I could immediately see it in music and in writing, and the friend I have who teaches yoga sees it in yoga and dance, and her husband in aikido practice and this tiny remark was one small thread in a lot of really great conversation last night, and I was happy to see he had written about it here. [...] [...] On an unrelated note, but among recent preoccupations, I wasn’t just going to blather on about Infinite Jest, but one of the bits I most appreciated was a character commenting on the state of “humble frustration” that allows one to proceed from one plateau of development to another, and the character was talking about tennis, but I could immediately see it in music and in writing, and the friend I have who teaches yoga sees it in yoga and dance, and her husband in aikido practice and this tiny remark was one small thread in a lot of really great conversation last night, and I was happy to see he had written about it here. [...]

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