stark reality

the best way to deal with a confrontation with stark reality upon returning from a 2 week vacation in Denmark is to 

1. pay the bills that need to be paid.

2.  call the people that need to be called.

3. go to work when you have to go to work.

4. go through photos of your vacation repeatedly.

sweet relief

Went to the chiropractor for the first time in my life last week.

It changed my life.  

I have mobility that I haven't had in, dare I say, years?

I was a skeptic and now I'm a convert.  

There is a time and a place to have your bones cracked back into place.

Evidently, one hip was angled anteriorly, the other posteriorly.  

I'm really working hard on getting my shoulder blades snug into my back in Chaturanga Dandasana.  

Got some work to do...

That's my mom in blue marveling at some really big trees.  

I heart old growth forest.

Dodged a Bullet

Sometimes it's better to not see your ex.

Sometimes you just don't need to go there.

Sometimes you can wish them well and send them love as they fly by on the highway and that's just fine.

in other news,


this was my winter office.  

no really, for real.

bribing with sex is unethical, right?

yesterday I "caught up" with a friend by text message who I haven't been in touch with for over two years

it's funny to summarize your life in a text message:

"teaching yoga learning permaculture selling groceries dating a sweetheart"

a night of whiskey dancing and hottubbing does a soul good.

I'm learning to Swype

Do you Swype?

This technique proves that my phone is smarter than me.

Sharing is Love

I don't really ever get tired of this gem.
It's like the next generation of We Are The World.
Lack of understanding leading lives away from Unity.  
Got to keep the Faith alive 'til Love is found. 




Saw a play this evening. 


It reminded me of the possibility that perhaps we call grapple with the same issues inside ourselves.


It reminded me that sometimes love is expressed through the desire to share.


Michael Franti reminds me to count my blessings not my problems.

I've said it before,

how can you go wrong with a cello on stage?

reinventing the norm

hot springs getaway

driving break

what snowpack?

king of the hill

Hi Def

I'm not much into surfing the web these days.  

But over a dinner the other night a friend shared some of these epic videos.  

Check it out.  

And maybe this too....

Watching stuff like this always reminds me to be having more fun.  

Always more fun.

lil red boots

sometimes it's all really hard and confusing.

sometimes we lose our way.

sometimes we don't know what to do.

sometimes red galoshes might just make it a little bit better...

before and after

this is the 3rd home in 2 years that I've moved into that has a terribly stained toilet.

I'm sorry, is this too much information?

Fortunately, I have a friend who cleans homes and she kind enough to share her secrets.

I did this in minutes.  Amazing.

f***ing hippies

this is not the first hippie I've known to keep natural deodorant in his glove compartment

this particular glove compartment deodorant stick has passed from one hippie down to another.

I think it might be a prerequisite for hippie-dom to keep an emergency deodorant in the car.

the more hippie, the less this stick is used.

in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it's never been used.

what's in store for 2012

more of this for sure

elucidate

there have been a lot of seemingly untimely passings lately

I wish it all made sense

I take them as reminders of love

I light a candle to each of them

I thank them for touching so many of us in their brief time with us

...

making do in the absence of snow

I'll admit this is winter fun, but be not fooled, despite this beautifully frozen lake, there is still no snow to ride on.

I'm not complaining, I haven't had the time to ride anyway, but this is an unusually late season and we're all crossing our fingers that it comes soon.

In the meantime, there's ice fishing and ice skating.

clarification

life is like a postcard

simplification

the focus of my practice of late has been 

metta

maitri

loving kindness

I feel pretty certain that animals get that more than we do.

The brown cow is grooming the black one.  

It kind of got me a little verklempt 

went to watch the salmon run

saw little more than this

in no way disappointed

if you happened across this while on a walk in the woods it might make you, well, pause at the very least.

a work of art.

infinite uses

infinite wisdom

artful ingenuity  

drivers don't really like it when they see the driver in front of them shooting photos of the sky

the purple people will tell me what to do

pay attention to saturn return voice of calling

opened my computer today to see that line from an astrological reading I had almost a year ago to the day.

I'm devoting a lot of time and energy to yoga these days and it's the first decision that has felt like it's coming straight from the heart. 

I think it's going to continue to take me in the direction that I need to go.

chia seeds are the new goji berries

I've been in the natural food industry long enough to recognize trends.

It's not a complaint or a boast, a simple observation.

I'd like to spend a chunk of my life here.

magic happens.

it really does.

there's a story here but it's sort of indescribable.

girl blowin' in the wind

happy belated birthday my dear, lucy.

will barnet.  one of my faves.

it's girl blowin' in the wind. 

it's a new bicycle

it's the good life.