I like this picture of me. It’s not the most flattering, but everytime I look at it I feel as happy as I felt the morning it was taken. I was on the beach in Rehoboth, the sun was just coming up, I hadn’t even washed my face or put my contacts in. G and I hit up Starbucks for coffee (that’s a venti soy latte in the cup) and headed to the beach for the sunrise. The sand had been raked and it was soft and cold from the night. I am scritching my fingers into it, which is something I love to do. There are some old guys with metal detectors, wearing headphones, trying to find lost treasures, just outside the frame of this picture.
This is me.
I’m happy.
It’s early in the morning.
I’m just up.
I’m drinking coffee and contemplating the universe.
It’s pretty much how I am when I write these posts (minus the beach and the metal detector guys).
So, what else do you want to know?
My name is Kathleen Thompson
I live in Mansfield, PA.
I teach yoga.
I love my life.
As of today (March 17, 2009) I am 20,510 days old.
Here are some other random things about me.
I practice yoga.
I love to breathe.
Kapalabhati pranayama rocks my world.
I can’t sing (but love to chant)
I love rituals
I was born a Capricorn (on the cusp)
I cannot live without coffee.
I can sit perfectly still for over an hour.
I am afraid of deep water.
I can’t parallel park.
I know how to scuba dive (but won’t).
I can eat anything with chopsticks.
I don’t use coupons.
I was at Woodstock.
I have a large vocabulary.
I have slept in the Everglades surrounded by alligators.
I used to want to be a bartender.
I used to want to be a nun
I am happiest when I am around purple things.
I can read Tarot cards.
I can’t eat eggplant.
I have relatives in The Wizard of Oz.
I have paddled a canoe with a nudist.
I function best with 9 hours sleep.
I can go for a week without speaking.
I am addicted to blogs and social media.
I love the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Rilke and Billy Collins
I watch My Dinner with Andre every January as a ritual
I don’t drink enough water.
I love my computer
I hate to vacuum.
I do not like hydrangeas.
I love the Sierra Mts.
I dislike the name “Debbie.”
I have read all of Proust.
I love to teach yoga
I like to fly kites.
I have never smoked a cigarette.
I cry at movies.
I only watch really crappy TV.
I wear a size 8 shoe.
I hate the smell of burnt toast.
I love catalpa trees.
I speak no foreign languages.
I love to drive.
I hate clowns.
I love roller coasters.
I hate country music.
I do not like the sound of bagpipes.
I hate shaving.
I love Brie.
I love to watch water move.
I love Holosync
I hate plastic cutlery
I carry Patanjali’s Yoga sutras in my bag always
I love my Kindle
I do not love my phone at all
I love sitting up to my neck in hot water.
But the most important thing you should know is that this “me” that I claim to be? This me that I try to nail down everyday?
It changes, evolves, and grows with everything I read and experience. It changes and grows and evolves with every human interaction, every breath, every mouthful of food, every sip of water, or coffee, or wine.
This is the page I probably should update daily!
heh.
Want to contact me?
email: mainstreetyoga@gmail.com
Follow me on Twitter: just_sit
Friend me on Facebook: Kathleen Thompson
This is where I teach yoga: www.yogamansfield.com
I LOVE THIS!!!! It’s making me LAUGH OUT LOUD!!! … and I LOVE the photo of you … JOY! JOY! JOY!!!!! It is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Thank you, Cindy! *big grin here*
Kath ~ This is beautiful. You should publish it!
Thanks Lin! (I think I did publish it–here!)
I knew we had a lot in common as I too am a capricorn! Clowns scare the hell out of me and the most calm place on the planet is on the beach early in the AM for me as well.
Thanks for the great article about our experience working out together – we have only just begun. Lets hope we can keep it fun and jump rope like kids!
Tim
what a powerful list! and of course ever changing…
I came across you this morning, as I learned in my iPod Touch Insight Timer app that you were among the 40 or 50 something people in this country (and a few others) that had sat with me, aware of our breathing, fragmentarily thoughtless and present… I then clicked in your Facebook link and email me your link to check it out later in my laptop… A few hours later, I had fun checking your web sites, the ones you list in your Facebook page, learning about your interesting and fun life. Thought you might find it amusing that somebody several hundreds miles from you, in Springfield IL, this venezuelan-gringo that I am, had come across your life in this way, and that a bit of my guilt was lift when I learned that somebody as productive as you seem to be needs 9 hours of sleep to function best!
What a cool way to meet, Nelson! Thank you for your comment. It makes it feel really REAL that there are other people meditating together around the country and around the world. I love Insight Connect and especially that it connected us. ~K.
it’s great you find it cool that we meet this way. I have continued reading your blog and find its name quite fitting, for it is truly a place of inspiration… one that makes you breath movingly… You are so right with your vision of the need to inspire one another. It’s kind of extending… or in any case it could be… it’s kind of extending the realm of meditation to a social level, ¿no?
Yes! I so much agree with you with regard to the reality that “Insight Connect,” the people you are able to see in the world that are meditating at the very moment you are.. the reality it brings to one’s lonely meditation.
I read some where in your inspired pages that one of your goals is (or was?) to learn Spanish. I have been teaching Spanish for many years now. Teaching adults Spanish is the one teaching I have realized I liked most, which is what I mostly do and I do it at home. My approach is mainly conversational. I have been thinking in expanding my teaching through Skype. If you are still interested in learning and/or improving your Spanish, and find Skype an interesting way of doing it, would you like to tried it with me? This is not a “individualized” ad. I won’t even charge you. I have never use Skype to teach, so it would be a good opportunity for me to test it. And I would certainly like to start trying it with the one who writes pages like those in this “Inspiration Location.”
This is my email: nlaracarrero@gmail.com
This is my Skype name: cabeza00