Midlife Farm
I have always wanted to live on a farm embracing not the simple life but the essential dirt, hatchings, birthings, hardship, death, compost compost for the soul sweet grasses sweet trees wildness and domestication side by side sisters the essential piling up like the photos on the piano carefully each month I pull them down [...]
Listening to the Universe
Listening to the Universe first I sketched leaves with the finest pointed pens trying to replicate details and edges as precisely as my eyes and hand could later I drew pictures after lights out of my black and white striped cat each morning revealed blobs and unmeeting scribbles Now I smell bark [...]
Yoga vs. Teacher
Your body is your teacher. I point out which way your foot is facing and if the knee is safe in that direction or not. You are the one who feels it and gets it or not. If you are talking aloud or talking to yourself in your head constantly, it is probably a good [...]
Permeability
If I took a step back to take it in I could see myself in the middle of something puddle, storm, narrative, love it isn’t as if I am invisible it is more as if what exists outside is not separate that there is no distinct outside, outline, casing porous but more than that like [...]
Pain
I teach yoga to cancer survivors. A client asked me the other day whether to continue yoga because of his pain. His cancer is causing great discomfort in general, but also because of its location, he finds it hard to move into certain poses because of the pain it creates. His question is, are [...]
Day One
Every day I entitle my diary heading as “Day One.” This practice started with an intimate relationship that was off again-on again. Each time we broke up, I would journal my emotions the first day after we broke up, thus the Day One. Then we would get back together, and it would happen all over [...]
You’re all right
My friend has the best job. He works at a grocery store in the produce department. He says all day long people will come up to him, reach around his cart to grab a fruit or a vegetable, and as he tries to move to make things easier for them, they say, “You’re okay.” “You’re [...]
Perfect Feet
Recently, a client came up to me and thanked me for saying something nice about her feet the last time we met. I don’t know exactly what I said, but I gather it was along the lines of “They’re your feet so send them messages of love instead of disappointment. They’ll receive those messages and [...]