Name: John Spivey
Dateline: Santa Barbara, CA
Weblog: www.crowscry.com [RSS]
Articles: 32
First Published: Thursday, November 10, 2005
Last Published: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
John Spivey is a writer and woodworker who lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife. He owns a small publishing company CrowsCry Press and maintains a personal blog. He can be contacted here.Currently listing articles 32-1:
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More Getting There From Here— Einstein, the fabric of being, the internet , and the mind.
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Can We Get There From Here?— You, me, the Internet, and the future of humankind.
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Embrace Separation, Return to Whole— Why wasn't there a place like this for me?
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A Writer's Lot— At my keyboard the worlds align and overlap, passing over and through each other to weave a fabric.
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Adventures Beyond Belief— We are dying from our beliefs, and our beliefs won’t save us.
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Floyd Landis — You Like My Socks?— It’s all hell you know, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
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Beyond The Crack In The World: I'll Meet You There— Beyond the shrinking of your ego is life, not what we imagine or merchandise or fear, but what IS.
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Zeus and the Practice of Loss— "Learn to invest in loss. Who is willing to do this?"
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Synchronicity and Grace— Sometimes the door just opens and you don't have to kick it down.
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Stretching Rainflies in a Storm— Encountering the elements of life...
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Just One Kind Favor
— Everything I learned for my father’s sake infuses my work.
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Did You Ever Get the Blues?— On John Trudell, the blues, and falling through the hole in your soul.
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The Ninety-Sixth Thesis: The Mandate of Heaven— We are almost dead, and it's time for our rebirth.
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The Coyote Dance of Things— Old Coyote keeps us free of self-deception and represents God's struggle to shock us out of predictability.
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Energy and Imagination— Dancing with the ghost of things...
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On Writing: The Truth of Why I Write— Of sorrow, grace, and a glorious debt.
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On Writing and Self-Publishing: Part 5— The ecosystem of books and the art and craft of writing.
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DVD Review: The Drama of Creation - Writers on Writing— Sitting in with masters of the language
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On Writing and Self-Publishing: Part 4
— A tour of the writer's mind, distribution and a call to you, the reader...
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Aldous and I - The Journey Begins— LSD, the New World, and the crafting of doors...
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On Writing and Self-Publishing: Part 3— Writing and designing a good product. But will they buy it?
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Myth and Education— There is a better education out there. I've lived it.
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On Writing and Self-Publishing: Part 2— Why do we write? Why does our work deserve to be on the shelves?
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On Writing and Self-Publishing: Part 1— Is there a new way to bring books to the world? Put your mind to the task.
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Everything Matters
— Thoughts on going postal in Goleta (the "Good Land") and life in the dark alley.
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The Heart of Boredom— Of Queen Bees and that which lurks below.
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Setting the Table
— Thoughts on the rest of our existence.
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Coyote Genesis— What you are about to read is purely symbolic. I should probably duck and cover now. Snakes and penises, oh my!
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The Music of Real Intelligence— A vision of life, the Internet, and deep meaning.
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Quest for Meaning
— Do we have what it takes?
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Book Review: Walking it Off by Doug Peacock— A veteran's chronicle of war, and wilderness as "the only refuge, [the] last, best hope for a kind of sanity."
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Opinions— Thoughts about the opinionated life...
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