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Chapter Highlights according to Dallas:
1. Crazy makers
People who are basically destructive in their behavior, and foisting their problems on their friends, family and community. They are people who are trying to take power over our lives, to take from us to give to themselves.
Julia tells us to be aware and properly label those people we have in our lives who are crazy makers, and we are told to create boundaries to separate and protect ourselves.
And we are told that it's possible we might fear that we could become crazy makers ourselves as a scary result of using and doing our creativity and our artist selves.
2. Attention
To me, this seemed like what I'm used to calling presentness.
There are two stories told here:
a. Julia's grandmother who coped or dealt with a relationship with a crazy maker husband, by having a close relationship to giving attention to the observable world, sharing it with Julia in letters.
b. Julia's coping with her pain from divorce by taking a similar attention to the things in the neighborhood she lived in.
Tasks:
This week's tasks involve looking at where we spend our time, and what we would prefer to be spending our time on.
We are also supposed to read the "Basic Principles" list every morning and evening. (I'm going to print this out and put it next to my desk.)