On Becoming Real These sonnets, written this summer and fall, are my response to my friend Bob Sessions’s Becoming Real: Authenticity in an Age of Distractions, a book that has changed the way I live my life.
On Becoming Real Six Sonnets
After reading and rereading the book, I see these as the keys to becoming real: spending time in the natural world, valuing community, listening for my callings, welcoming spirituality, cherishing peak experiences “in the zone,” and feeling gratitude. I have tried to assimilate these activities and attitudes more fully in my life. Doing so has made me broader, deeper, and happier. My thanks to Bob. I won’t say more about the sonnets than this: they might be read as an uncompleted journey from distraction to authenticity. TZ Ann Arbor October 2012
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