My local library has a policy where they no longer alert you if a book you checked out is overdue. They wait for you to appear, perhaps sheepishly, and then whack you with the reality that the ‘free loaner book’ just cost you three dollars and twenty cents. I never grumble at the fee I …
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Mar
23
Mar
22
Awake
While we are in the third month of the year, we are truly at the beginning of the evolving process of growth and change. Spring is the foundation for all things to grow, nurture, and manifest. Appropriately, spring is associated with the element of earth. Spring is when we can start to shake off the …
Mar
21
When seeking resolution, resolve to seek it from a place inside.
Twenty one days before the spring equinox several of us set a goal to do the practice of the Mother Sequence or Five Poses of our choosing everyday. Our desire was to usher in spring by getting stronger in both our bodies and our minds during the final days of winter. But living in a …
Apr
27
It begins by touching your heart and then adding a smile…
A tiny bud of a smile on our lips nourishes awareness and calms us miraculously. It returns to us the peace we thought we had lost. Thich Nhat Hanh Asking my students to smile at the end of class and give gratitude towards their wonderful bodies may seem trite or insignificant at times. But the …
Mar
12
Burning the Candle at Both Ends
Burning the candle at both ends is a saying that we refer to when we are working so frenziedly to keep all the plates spinning, all the ducks in a row, all deadlines being met.
Feb
28
Forward Thinking
Instead of looking forward, perhaps we look at now…. We may be the only country to start caucuses and primaries a full eleven months before the actual general election. And, still there are those who cry for it to begin sooner. We are a culture of forward thinkers. We eat breakfast and think about lunch …
Feb
08
Hitting the Restart
January was never my favorite month. Blame it on the cold. Blame it on the long dark nights. Blame it on the holiday hangover. Whatever it was, I felt I had to just endure January before I’d be granted the light and warmth and better temperament of the rest of the year. But this January, …