2011 Reading Challenge – the Inveterate Joiner strikes again

Written by on February 9, 2011 · View Comments
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”  ~ Ernest Hemingway So after [almost] completing the #Reverb10 Challenge back in December (I responded to all but 2 prompts) I clearly needed some other challenge to sign up for.  I just can’t help myself. This challenge is one near and dear to my heart because it involves something that I do all the time anyway – READING. My favorite thing  to do in the entire world, besides spending time with those I love.  Although, depending on what I’m reading that’s sometimes a toss up. I have joined the 2011 Reading Challenge [...] Read more...

Categories: Books

If you fall out, get back in

Written by on February 6, 2011 · View Comments

I am astounded that January has already come and gone. How did that happen? January brought with it many things including a return to a consistent Bikram yoga practice after some time away. I am so happy to be back in the warm, wet fold of the yoga room – particularly given the frigid, snowy, sleety, and generally challenging winter we are experiencing right now. The hot room is a blessed respite that feels to me like a mini-vacation. I am sometimes tempted to show up with a beach chair, my trusty Amazon Kindle and an icy pitcher of margaritas. [...] Read more...

Categories: Bikram Yoga, Personal Development

Lessons from the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Part 1: Being the best of whatever you are

Written by on January 17, 2011 · View Comments

This is the first in a 3-part series I’m writing this week reflecting on lessons from the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can’t be a pine at the top [...] Read more...

Categories: Personal Development, Spiritual Growth

#reverb10 Day 30: Gift

Written by on January 1, 2011 · View Comments

December 30 – Gift Prompt: Gift. This month, gifts and gift-giving can seem inescapable. What’s the most memorable gift, tangible or emotional, you received this year? (Author: Holly Root) Best gift this year, hands down is the gift of being alive. I know it sounds incredibly cheesy, but it’s true. I feel somehow more grateful for the very simple fact of my life. I am aware of what a precious gift this journey is, and I feel more inclined to treat the gift with all the care and tending it deserves instead of just tossing it into a corner as I [...] Read more...

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