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Veda is my little yoga buddy. Her malasana is pretty darn impressive, as you can see in the photo above. :) She can also do a highly skilled down dog where her head touches the ground. I tried it and fell flat on my noggin! Mostly we laugh and contort and roll up into the [...]

Went out and played with the wind and water yesterday. There’s nothing like gliding across an open lake with just the power of the sky behind you and the buoyancy of the water beneath. There’s something so pure about it. It’s empowering to feel the speed that’s there if you just grab onto it. Leaning [...]

she reminds me to be happy. that i can choose to be so. that I can wear funky skirts and stupid teeshirts and crappity shoes if i feel like it. that i can fake-laugh really loud if i want to. that i can cry when i’m overtired. that i can ask for lovin’s if i [...]

The last few nights we’ve been playing the “What do you love” game at bedtime at our house. It’s a wonderful way to end the day. It gets your mind off work or your to-dos or little grievances left over from a not-so-stellar day. On an already good day it makes your heart swell up [...]

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about prayer… What it is. What it means. How to do it. etc.
I listened to an SOF podcast where Seane Corn talks about yoga being a “body prayer”, and I liked that idea because oftentimes that’s what it feels like to me when I do yoga. Like the movement [...]

The second Seven Day Sit ended yesterday. That was the 10 minute sit for seven days. How’d you do? I forgot a few days this time around, I have to admit. But loved when I did remember. Felt like it added so much space to daily life. I think I need to tie some string [...]

So Colin has this harmonica. And he doesn’t know how to play it, but he fakes it pretty well. And Veda just goes nuts. (And yeah, she’s in a cardigan and a diaper. We’re making up new fashion rules.)