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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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