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If today is your birthday:
You work well with those in authority who are independent and original. You could find yourself engaged in nonconformist causes this day. You are always ready to promote what is independent and innovative. You like radical approaches and find yourself quite interested in breakthrough advances, such as voice recognition, or eye [...]

Teacher = gift

Yesterday was the first day in months that I’ve made it to a Mysore class with Katie.  And I can feel it today, particularly in my hips and upper back.  Practicing with a teacher, which for so long had really been my only experience, is now a bit of a foreign experience for me.  I [...]

Organics, authenticity etc.

So far, this week has been quite wonderful for no particular reason.
After completing a huge project, my boss took the whole office out for lunch yesterday, showered us with gift certificates to a particularly lovely spa and then sent us home for the afternoon. What a difference it makes to feel appreciated by your [...]

Confessions of an Ashtanga Criminal

Sunday practices are by far the best of the week. The Guy goes off to work for a couple hours in the morning. I get out of bed at my own leisurely pace. Read some emails. Check on the plants (have I mentioned that we’re mildly obsessed with our plants? [...]

The best thing

After I hung up the phone, after the tears started, after he put his arms around me and wiped away my tears, he said, “You’re a kind, considerate person.  You have never disappointed me.”
That meant everything to me.

Gloat

Yes, let’s talk some more about me.  I’m so ridiculously proud of myself for my latest accomplishment that I feel like sending out an office-wide email extolling my sudden ability to stand up from backbends.  Alas, I think that would result in a whole lot of colleagues avoiding that-crazy-hippie-who-sits-in-the-corner (yeah, her, the one with the [...]

Um, when did this happen?

So apparently I can stand up from dropbacks. Yes, all weekend I’ve been doing that thing that — in the past — has only happened in my dreams: I dropped back and stood up, then dropped back and stood up, and then I did it again and again and again. More to come [...]