As we all move into lockdown mode and practice social distancing, I've seen a number of friends and acquaintances post about plans to move fitness, dance or other classes online. There are lots of solutions for this kind of setup but I'm going to write what I know and outline some easy ways to do…
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Poetic Prose
I’m listening to a song that I listened to a million years ago. A song I felt so deeply. Its rhythms were the beat of my heart. Or so I thought. It touches some distant memory but it feels like nothing. A touch of nothing like a touch from me. It was nothing. It’s gone. It never…
April Fool
Last year around this time, I created a playlist I called April Fool. It was building off the feelings I had in the midst of making foolish decisions, knowing it and offering myself up to the abyss of reckless decisions. I chose songs based on the feel of them, wanting them to enhance the sensation…
Love of Letter Writing
I have had a long time love for letter writing. I've been lucky enough to have written and received many letters despite the fact that many people reply to my interest in letter writing by informing me that the art of letter writing is dead. Letter writing is not dead, merely endangered. It reminds of this…
Middle Ground, Destination Unknown
I've been thinking recently about the middle ground. It's so easy to focus on opposing options. Right or left, yin or yang. But, perhaps, the real magic in life is the infinite space between those two. I guide myself through life using a series of principles, quotes, ideas or goals but I often think of…
To be known
Some things just stick with you and I was thinking about one of those things today. In a classical studies course I took years ago, I was introduced to the idea of humanity's quest for immortality. According to my memory of the course, the ancient Greeks believed that this could be achieved in one of…
On Making Things
I love making things. But I’m not a perfectionist and if things don’t turn out 100% how I’d hoped, I usually just accept the results and happily use my new lovely creation (of course sometimes things turn out too poorly for even that 😜). I eat the runny pie and not-so-great waffles. I ate tons…
Setting an Intention
In yoga last week, I set an intention that I'd never set before. If you're not familiar with yoga or setting intentions in yoga, the best explanation I've found is...