Capturing a moment?

It's been an eventful time of late for me and my family. Just in the last few weeks I have done most of these things: took a vacation, taught a week long class, quit a good job at a mixed-up place, popped off to Las Vegas for a couple of days, started a new job, and spent a couple days learning at conferences. There's another conference and a class to take with that late this month, just before the holidays.

I also just finished listening to a pretty interesting book on Western Buddhism and am trying to process some of the ideas from it and the connections they fired in my brain. There's some suspiciously powerful alignment between the author's explanation of various points of Buddhist teachings about the nature of the mind and feelings and some of the formative ideas I more or less started with. Of course, those came from and have been shaped further by science fiction as much as by my own meager experiments.

( this next bit likely won't make sense to anyone else )

Anyway, how is anyone else doing? Read anything lately that broke your head wide open?