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Sep.12.2012 Taking Oneself Seriously Years ago, at a time when I felt trapped by circumstance, when the way forward was anything but clear, a wise friend asked me this: How seriously can you take yourself? What would it look like to take yourself one hundred percent seriously? There’s a sort of superstition that if something...	Jul.07.2011 Keeping My Seat July 7 Keeping My Seat I can sit through this. I can do it even when I don’t remember that I want to. I will get through this no matter how it tweaks me and I squirm in my seat. In spite of the unfairness of it all, I can do what is right, because that is what is best...
May.15.2011 Little by Little I had a really great conversation today with a friend about feeling stuck. Feeling stuck was something I never understood until a few years ago. I was always a set them up & then knock them down kind of woman. The more I learn about life and people the more I realize everyone goes muddles...	May.04.2011 Hunting I once considered myself a huntress. It's why I studied archaeology. Hunting for history, hunting for reasons why things are the way they are - why humanity is the way it is, why I am the way I am. That's what I mostly hunted for. Myself. It's why I write, it's why I teach yoga. I don't hunt people...
Jul.07.2010 Keeping My Seat July 7 Keeping My Seat I can sit through this. I can do it even when I don’t remember that I want to. I will get through this no matter how it tweaks me and I squirm in my seat. In spite of the unfairness of it all, I can do what is right, because that is what is best...	Jan.27.2010 Simplicity Itself January 27 Simplicity Itself My life runs at a Gilbert and Sullivan pace, with about as much sense and comic relief. You say 'keep it simple' and my disease says 'why ruin a good play?’ The truth is this is not play at all but a work that consumes my life from me and doesn't thank me for my...