  This evening I went up to this beautiful uptown apartment to see about the writing group. I've been getting their emails for a few months now, I may as well see what it's about, right?
At first I thought it was going to be awkward because there were only four people there or so and I was definitely the youngest. At the end there were about twenty. As far as I could tell, it was a very polite, nice group of people. The leader, Z, really held it all together. I heard a few bad pieces and a few good pieces. The effect of forcing myself to stay in one place and write continuously for a whole hour was incredible. I came up with a few very lucid passages. I will start forcing myself to do that more often if I can. I met a kid there from park slope, B, who was also into meditation. I ran the idea of starting a meditation group by him.
He said he'd never heard of anything like that in park slope and it sounded like a great idea. Later we went out for beers at jake's dilemma and saw the Lakers' crushing defeat. 
