Eat, Pray, Love - Lovers, Go with Travels with William

June 16, 2008 at 9:21 pm · Filed under Travels

I leant my copy of Travels with William to  my travel buddies.  That
was a mistake…I cannot get it back!  Mugoux’s book is entertaining,
hilarious at times,   gut wrenching , and clearly insightful.  It’s like
the Thin Man series…with William Powell and Myrna Loy…only  this
romp is on steroids!  If you have travel buddies, don’t give them your
copy, you’ll never get it back…it will make the rounds, thus depriving
yourself of rereading the book before you set off to Greece.  Not to
mention depriving the author of a few more sales.  Also, if you like the
book Eat Pray and Love,  you’ll find Mugoux’s book similar in the search
for the transcendence of self through personal revelations, set on the
stage of  a beautiful foreign country.   Mugoux , I can’t wait to read
your next book!

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Book Crossings again!

June 16, 2008 at 9:14 pm · Filed under Travels

Hi Mugoux, I very much enjoyed your book, though not at all for the “going to Greece or saving your marriage” aspects. I picked it up through BookCrossings and wanted to share my take because I think it has wider appeal than the coverage (backcover, press, web) purports.

Just posted to BookCrossing:

I caught the book at the South American Explorers Club Book Exchange in Miraflores, Lima.

Life is full of obstacles. Relationships are difficult. And for many of us, home is a choice, increasingly foreign and something that is in constant flux. This is a book about learning to live in the present, wherever that is, throwing out the expectations of what life and home are supposed to be, making the most of what we are given along the way, and maybe even coming to appreciate those who are by our side.

I love it; it hit home, which for me is nowhere near Greece and I’m not married, nor traveling. That says a lot for a book which is supposedly about Greece, marriage and travel.

I will release exactly where I caught this book and wish the best for those who choose to experience.

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The Old thang for the New Year

January 7, 2008 at 10:23 pm · Filed under Travels

Have you read The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard?  Here’s a quote “…your unconscious belief system is held in place by not looking at it.  What kind of service are you rendering people if you don’t turn them on to the fact that the thought system of fear, which they have denied and projected outwards, must be closely examined in their lives if they are to be free of it.  What will you be bringing to the party if you fail to inform people that the solution to the problems of the world and its relationships will never be found at the level of the interaction between individual bodies?”
This is where the next book in the Travels with William series, The Origin of Sighs, is headed - really looking at our projections and turning away from seeking solutions that do not involve the right use of mind - the One mind.  Our mind that exists without conflict, with right or wrong, male/female that which is an expression of love without form.  What do you think about that concept - being without form? Does it frighten or liberate or irritate?

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Travels with William in South America

November 25, 2007 at 8:53 pm · Filed under Travels

Do you know of the groovy website Book Crossings? http://www.bookcrossing.com/  This is how it works: (from their website.)
You can register any book you have on the site, and then set the book free to travel the world and find new readers. Leave it on a park bench, at a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym — anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where the books might travel next. Track the book’s journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.So..guess where Travels with William has just shown up?  Cuzco Peru. Here’s the track:

Journal entry 1 by ldbuttercup from Seattle, Washington  USA on Saturday, August 04, 2007
“Travels with William” follows the true adventures of an artistically inclined married couple as they burn all their possessions and move to Greece.
This book is a travel memoir, a life memoir, and an honest account of the ups and downs of relationships. Mugoux’s dramatic but brutally honest retelling of her story gives the reader a deeply personal glimpse into the lives of two unique people and how they have made a life together. It’s an inspiring read for anybody who believes that life is an adventure and that there are MANY different ways to live a life and be in a relationship.
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Journal entry 2 by ldbuttercup from Seattle, Washington  USA on Thursday, August 16, 2007
Released about 3 mos ago (8/13/2007 12:00:00 PM BX time) at Twiggs Coffee Shop University Heights in San Diego, California USA
RELEASE NOTES:
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Journal entry 3 by AnonymousFinder from n/a, n/a  n/a on Monday, October 15, 2007
Found at Twiggs coffee shop in San Diego. I really enjoyed reading this book. The unconventional relationship and the promise of adventure kept my interest throughout. Greece is now near the top of my places to visit. Left this book in Peru. More specifically a small artistic neighborhood called San Blas at the hostal El Grial.
CAUGHT IN SAN DIEGO CA USA
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Journal entry 4 by AnonymousFinder from n/a, n/a  n/a on Wednesday, November 21, 2007
I am finding this book interesting. Found on the shelf in the Hostal El Grial in Cuzco. Serious, yet funny! (The book, not the hostal).
CAUGHT IN CUZCO PERU

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Autumn, Marfa, Donald Judd and Big Bend

October 15, 2007 at 1:04 pm · Filed under Travels

We’ve been wandering through west Texas this October and have been enrapt with the land of the Mojave Rattler and the white-backed Hog-nosed skunk. Visual artist Andrea Zeitel spoke very softly in Marfa about all of Donald Judd’s holdings upon his death. Her minimalist approach is compelling, but not her actual voice. Marfa is where Giant was shot, but now it is a flutter with cool kids, espreso drinks and wide open spaces filled with giant boxes.  
The Chinati Foundation open house was a blast and the Chinati Hot Springs were a hallowed hippie happening. The folks of west Texas don’t need nobody and make everyone welcome. Freedom, no BSin’, raw, dangerous, formidable, west Texas is a great place to be still and a great place to holler.

 

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Blogging - or lack there of

June 21, 2007 at 6:47 pm · Filed under Travels

Oh, I know I’m suppossed to “add content” continually to this blog, so as to entice you to return again and again, and to seduce search engines to pick up on words like, Greece, relationship, food, women, sex, etc. But I’m not of the blogging generation, frankly, I just don’t see how you or I can be bothered, or what I could possibly say once a day, or even once a week that could be more interesting than looking at the sky. For God’s sake let’s just go outside and feel the air.
But I will try to add something a little more often, but it would help if the next person reading this would ask an interesting question.

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Transparency

May 24, 2007 at 10:22 pm · Filed under Travels

William and I recently went to a new yoga class (aren’t we trendy) and the teacher/leader/guide suggested that we be transparent in our approach. Hmmnn… He suggestred that this, transparancy, was the means to world salvation. To be honest with oneself, to be transparent. Imagine…
To be transparent about the stretch in yoga class and how it doesn’t feel right, (another concept - nothing’s new and nobody’s lookin’.) To be honest that you really hate yoga, or that you’re an illegal inside trader, that you lied, I lied, we lied.
I mean it doesn’t really matter, why not just cop to it? It’s a relief. And there is another lustrous side effect - compassion.
I mention this because Travels with William is my attempt at transparency. I, too, believe that IT, transparency, is a way to save the world. And it’s so right now!

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Why do you call yourself an Indie writer? Aren’t you just self-published?

April 17, 2007 at 2:40 pm · Filed under Q&A

Yes, indeed, but there’s a stigma to being self-published, and there’s grit and heroism to being indie, which of course I want to embody. Why should only film and bands get to have that prestige? Look, there are a hell of a lot better writers out there than me, and they can’t get published, so I thought I’d just go for it and be indie!

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What’s your genre?

April 17, 2007 at 2:27 pm · Filed under Q&A

Copy of Kyrie.jpg I’ve listed the work(s) as Travel Literature because each takes place in a different country, Travels with William – Greece, The Origin of Sighs –Europe and the U.S., 501 Spanish Blurbs – Mexico, Gauchos Galore – Argentina. Personally, I consider the work autobiographical fiction because even though there are actual events in the stories everything has been embellished and there’s all kinds of nonsense that didn’t occur. However, my goal with these books is transformation, hopefully for myself, and I want to offer the view of what it looks like to be an ordinary human being who chooses/longs/pursues enlightenment, bungles about searching for it all over the planet, and inside herself, but eventually begins to live it. There are hundreds of How-to books, but what does it actually look like to pursue the path and achieve it? This is my attempt to offer one view, and hopefully when I get to the last book I’ll have embodied it and you will too. If that’s what you want.

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Where are the other books you’ve mentioned?

April 17, 2007 at 2:26 pm · Filed under Q&A

They’re coming. Travels with William comes out Spring 2007, The Origin of Sighs, 2008, and the rest each following year.

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