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on life and yoga

A Short Pep-Talk When You’ve (I’ve) Had One of THOSE Weeks

There will be days–and weeks–that knock you to the ground and beat the shit out of you. That’s part of the deal of living life. And when you get to the end of one of those days, or weeks, you should celebrate the fact that you are batting 100%. Because you have survived EVERY GOTDAMB ONE of those awful-horrible-no-good-very-bad days....

#RCTID / soccerwatcher

Timbers Season In Haiku (part 1 of ?)

So I’m watching my favorite team lose on the road–again–and was in writing mode: no wins on the road too bad there are no points for moral victories ============================ Timbers are last girl in the icestrvaganza will they catch pinwheel? ============================ I’ve held the post-mortem haiku because there may yet be some kind of common-core mathematics that will get Portland into the...

me / on life and yoga

A Lesson On Showing Up(side-down) In My Life

So, in my Tuesday night Gentle Yoga class (oh, hey, I’m taking yoga classes, that’s a new thing in 2016!), just after the Orlando nightclub shootings, our instructor asked us what we needed from class that night. We were all feeling frazzled and fragile and were pretty unanimous in our need for peace and grounding. With that information, class began....

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Sheeeee’s BAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

I turned off my old “word blog” ages ago. Right about the time I realized that people related to my day job were Googling me and I…panicked. Although I kept the photoblog going (mostly), I stopped writing, except for my own paper journals. I locked down most of my social network profiles as tightly as possible, and I collapsed into...