yoga | yoga
Jun.08.2010
I felt different after the chant, in the days following. Maybe, I thought, maybe I could look into all this guru stuff more closely. Maybe this is what has been missing. Maybe I have been wrong about what a guru is.
I had been feeling like I’d been wrong about a lot of things for awhile. Peeling...
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May.31.2010
In front of Natvar on the floor was a shiny wooden rectangular box with a short keyboard – black and white keys like a small piano. On the other side of the masking-tape aisle sat Mark cross legged in front of an oblong drum, the kind with two circles of stretched skin on either side and an oval of...
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May.25.2010
The latest chapter from the memoir I am writing online at http://experiments-in-memoir.blogspot.com, a memoir with no title yet...
Though he had turned me down up in Maine, within a few weeks of my return to the city Bill and Laura had broken up as I'd been so confident they would, and Bill...
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Apr.05.2010
Back in February, The Guardian ran a piece on “Rules for Writing Fiction” that featured sage advice from famous writers on what to do and what not to do. In general, I hate that type of article, which always makes me feel like I’m doing it all wrong. In this compendium of advice, as in most such...
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Nov.22.2009
Years ago, when my ideal situation fell apart, I had a nervous break down. My 'nervous system' literally broke down. My entire body ceased to function properly, and all I could move were my eyes and mouth. It scared me. It was the time that I turned my life around, which has taken me a decade...
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Nov.18.2009
My memoir's subtitle is A Woman's Journey to Peace With Scoliosis, Her Mother and Her Polish Heritage. Inner peace is my personal daily practice. Peace is that hummingly alive place where I don't fight. I don't do mental violence to myself for looking crooked in my clothes, I don't do emotional...
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Oct.09.2009
I recently attended a Yoga retreat and took two classes from Rodney and Colleen Yee, one focusing on balance and the other ended with a quote by Picasso on the benefit of reserves. Well, I can read a balance sheet like the best of them, find the elegant columns that if managed well (at least for a...
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Sep.04.2009
Some spam is tasty. Possibly because I write on the paranormal, I received an unsolicited morsel this morning from online bookseller AbeBooks alerting me to their new “Weird Book Room.” The message showcased cover thumbnails of ten representative titles. My favorites: “The Big Book of Lesbian...
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Aug.04.2009
Time for a breather folks. Seriously. No Obama (other than to wish him a happy birthday - see, I'm not completely callous). No healthcare (though I've got tons of new things to say, I'll give it another day's rest).
Today, we discuss Wii.
I was given this wonderful little video game system for my...
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Jul.14.2009
Ananda also teaches free monthly yoga classes from March to December in Malcolm X - Meridian Hill Park in Washington, DC. Visit http://yoga.meetup.com/584 to read the schedule.
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