Entries from September 2009

September 30, 2009

A Little Nibble of Silence

Official “Kath-led Morning Yoga” has now ended for the year and will return with the rains and the robins in April.
But some of us still get up at the butt-crack of dawn on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings to practice Ashtanga.  Nobody teaches it, we just DO IT.  Christine is the expert, so we watch [...]

September 29, 2009

Commit to Something

“If you are really interested in finding out…”  –Toni Packer
When I was sitting meditation retreats regularly at Springwater Center back in the 80s and early 90s, I used to have the same discussion, over and over again, with Toni Packer (the resident wise woman there) about how hard it was to sustain my meditation practice [...]

September 28, 2009

Prime Time

Everyone has their “prime time.”  Mine is before lunch.  It’s my best (really my only) truly creative time.  After lunch?  I am toast, done, finished.
And after dinner?  Really bad.  Catatonic almost.  But it’s often after dinner that I write these posts.
Today I had a rockin’ day with my journal and my pen, a real power [...]

September 26, 2009

Nothing Runs Like A Deer(e)

Except maybe me, through the woods.
Today I did the Ives Run Trail Challenge (4 miles) which, after last weekend’s Dam Half Marathon (13 miles) should have felt like a cakewalk, but didn’t.
It’s weird.  This is how my mind works: If I know it’s a 13 mile run, I get tired at mile 11.
If it’s a [...]

September 25, 2009

100 New Recipes, #2

I took out the slow cooker today.  (Must be fall, huh?)  Tonight I needed to rush home from yoga and be finished eating by 7 PM because tomorrow I am having the Community Diagnostic Blood Analysis done.
For a mere $49 I will allow a fledgling phlebotomist to poke me about 17 times in the arm [...]

September 24, 2009

The Real Story

So here is the real story .
I’ve been taking the advice of Chris Brogan in his great book Trust Agents and stepping out of the safety of “Lurker-ville “
What this means is that I am blogging more myself, and I’m  starting to comment on blogs I enjoy, telling the authors what I like, and how [...]

September 23, 2009

Yeah, I’m a Fan Girl

Today I got an email from Steven Pressfield’s publicist.
Seems I’ve been foisting The War of Art on all my friends so relentlessly and with such vigor and over-the-top-ness, that news of all this foisting has finally reached Steven’s “people,” and they wrote, begging, in the name of all my friends, and all that’s decent, to [...]

September 22, 2009

Water Resistant

I have made the “Drink More Water” resolution every New Year’s Eve for at least the past 20 years. No lie.
I go on week-long streaks of water-drinking, then revert back to “camel” mode where I don’t drink much of anything (except my morning coffee) for months on end.
Even though Tim wrote it explicitly on my [...]

September 21, 2009

On The Rocks

I am currently drinking an electrolyte replenishment drink called “Zenergize.”
I have a blood blister on the bottom of my left big toe.
I am walking down the steps one at time, verrry slooowly whispering, “Ouch, ouch, shit, ouch.”
I got home from the Dam Half Trail Challenge yesterday afternoon, dropped my bag of smelly clothes on the [...]

September 19, 2009

100 Recipes: Nut-Crusted Tilapia

Oh boy am I in a food rut!  Same thing every week, almost.  So this being Rosh Hashannah and all, I decided to make a New Year’s resolution to try 100 New Recipes this year. I got the idea from Orbitalmechanic, a LJer I have followed for a number of years.  She does this, and [...]