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My last full asana practice was in July. After 4 surgeries on the chest, back, and armpit and 6 months of intense cancer treatment I can barely hold myself up in down dog, plank is a shaky quake, my hips are like wishbones waiting to split, and my toes might as well be in Long Island. It will be months before I am ‘back’…. And really, what does that matter….I am alive, and I have my breath. My body has…
When I was about 15 years old, I had just moved from Montana to the Tempe area and I was doing some deep soul searching. I was finding ways of connecting to a place of peace within myself and learning how tame the monsters in my complicated, teenage mind. One day while walking around Kiwanis park, I stumbled, literally, upon a beautiful, antique looking, gold leafed Buddhist meditation book….which, years later, I intentionally left at the same park, hoping it…
One day I decided to give the boys some home lessons on American plants and animals that are endangered and on the brink extinction. We learned about the American chestnut tee (and its revival), the Texas Golden Gladecress, the Crimson Hawaiian Damselfyl, The Grey Wolf, American Bison, the West Indian Manatee, we even discovered the debate regarding redheads going extinct. As we tumbled through National Geographic’s, World Wildlife books and Nature Conservancy sites, I was explaining what it meant to…
I am a firm believer in the need to express our selves through various creative modalities. Our creative capacity is something that flows from the soul, and gets blocked from the critical mind. Too often we don’t create because we are led to believe that a masterpiece should be made. Our inner self-critic over-rides the playful innocence that wants to color outside the lines and create things that are abstract and imperfect. We attach to the end…
