If you practice yoga, do you remember how you met? Was it love at first sight, or did you start off as "just friends.?" If you have ever practiced yoga but don't anymore, do you know why? Did you have a fight and break up? Or did you just grow apart? If you still practice … Continue reading A Blind Date With Yoga
Month: February 2012
Reading
Back in December I made a reading list for myself. One book a month. Thanks to Leap Day tomorrow, I will be on track. My January book was 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. This was not on my original list. Somebody handed me this 900 page tome in early January, and I thought: Aw, Shit! I … Continue reading Reading
The Water Habit
52 ounces of water You see that water? You know how much water is in that carafe? There's 52 ounces in that puppy. Know how I know? Cause I measured it. I did the calculation and that's how much water I need to drink every day. (your weight in pounds, divided by 2, equals your … Continue reading The Water Habit
Cat Toy
Today I was in PetSmart looking for a toy for LuLu. Do you know how many cat toys are shaped like mice? A lot. Tons of little gray life-like mice made out of felt, filled with cat nip. They also sell a wide assortment of bigger,very life-like mice, which verge on being rats. Some have … Continue reading Cat Toy
Home Yoga Practice
When it comes to yoga, I'm a cranker, a churner, a go-hard-or-go-home-er. When I am led by my teacher, especially, I will hold onto my edges in a pose with my teeth and my toenails until I feel myself practically ripped apart. When I practice alone, I can't drive myself to quite that level of … Continue reading Home Yoga Practice
Feeling My Mettle
The other night I led Bakasana (Crow) prep poses, but when we got to the actual POSE, I really couldn't hold it for very long. Two of my younger, more bendy students were rocking it though, and even trying advanced variations. I was trying to help them achieve some of these variations, but I couldn't … Continue reading Feeling My Mettle
Crazy Town
This was the view this morning from Grant Science Center about 8 AM. I was walking Boomer this morning, which I never do, because G usually walks Boo in the morning, but this morning she was boarding the bus to Crazy Town, so I found myself trotting the Corgi through the sleepy campus as the … Continue reading Crazy Town
Waiting for the blackbirds
Every day that my "Boomer Walk" takes me up Cardiac, I admire, and stand awestruck by this massive oak. Today someone I follow on Facebook posted that she saw red-winged blackbirds for the first time this spring. I get more excited for the blackbirds than I do the robins, I think. The male redwings come … Continue reading Waiting for the blackbirds
Lent, Mallo Cups, and the Resistance Monster
Raise your hand if you ever gave up candy for Lent. (My hand did not go up.) But even still, I always find myself craving Mallo Cups this time of year because every kid in my Catholic school gave up candy for Lent. And Mallo Cups were the big Lenten sacrifice. We were told we should give … Continue reading Lent, Mallo Cups, and the Resistance Monster
De-Cluttering
If I could find my camera I would take a picture of my room. This room. Where I am sitting now, and where I sit and write every morning. But I can't find my camera because it is buried under a tsuanmi of papers and other crappola on my dainty little Lady's Desk, which is … Continue reading De-Cluttering
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