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Love Is All Around
It only took ten months of driving to midtown at rush hour twice a week to convince me to do the math, and behold: it is the same amount of time for me to take light rail downtown as it is to sit in traffic, and it is cheaper by about $1.40 per trip. I [...]
Getting Lucky
Nah, it’s not that kind of post.
Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes we have a winter that is so freaking cold for Baltimore that my usual dreaded temperature range -the forties- feels downright balmy. Sometimes, on a winter morning the whole neighborhood smells like nutmeg from the McCormick plant, even though the winds usually aren’t right [...]
One Foot in the Past, One Foot in the Future
Sometime in the middle of May of last year, I got this intense feeling that things were about to change, that there was a major transition happening. I didn’t know then that the transition I was feeling was going to carry me through the rest of the year, and it is still just getting started. [...]
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Work It Out
1. Tonight was my first bit of exercise in over a year that was not in a yoga studio, or outside. Being back in a gym felt fine, although I had conveniently blocked from my memory the inevitable forced tv watching while on cardio equipment. I spent forty-five minutes on an arc trainer*, trying to [...]
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Snow Day
This is one of my favorite sensations: sitting in my house in the morning, laundry spinning in the dryer, snow falling. Even when I can’t see the snow, there is this snow awareness; the difference in the light and the movement of sound around the snowflakes. No slamming doors, just muffled openings and closings. And, [...]
Narcissism
Blogging, at least in the way that I do it, is narcissistic. It is shocking to me that anyone would actually want to read about my clothes and my shoes and, oh yeah, my occasionally mindblowing moments of connectedness with all that is, and love for the world so powerful that it leaves me thunderstruck, [...]
New Love
Before I get down to it here, I should note that my mom reads my blog. So far, knowing that she is reading has not caused me to censor anything. It is not like we have all this mother – daughter tension that hangs over everything, but gets forced out of my writing for expediency. [...]
Body, Mind and Sole*
I have two great regrets in my life: 1) One night when I was sixteen, I started laughing as my big high school crush was about to kiss me, and 2) my mom and I don’t wear the same size shoes. Such a bummer – she has good taste and more money than me.
I write [...]
A Very First Chakra Weekend
Themes lately: connection, sacredness, surrender.
In the last two classes I took – a restorative class on Friday, and a power-ish class Sunday morning – pigeon pose became a very big deal. I didn’t just want to hang out in it for a while, I wanted to really dig in, and live in the sensation, just [...]
And now for something completely different…