Great Yoga Teacher

After a long period of business hassles and wedding planning I am finally getting back to yoga class. I continued my home practice, but as we all know, it's not quite the same. Today D and I went to Marilyn's Sunday Hatha class, and as usual it was great. She has the best designed sequences that I have ever encountered, and that includes workshops I've attended with some yoga rock stars. Each class has a different thoughtful sequence, which means she is doing a lot of preparation. Most importantly, she is a deeply spiritual and caring person which pervades her classes -- quite a bit different from the yoga as boot-camp that is popular today. She's a great resource for Central Florida, so check her out at Full Circle Yoga, http://fullcircleyoga.com/, where she teaches several classes each week.

OMNES MUNDUM FACIMUS

I needed a break from moving, well written, literary novels, so I picked up Bad Monkeys. A near-future mystery probably geared towards college kids. Fun, for the most part. A fast read. The Organization eliminates evil Bad Monkeys from the world before they can hurt more people. Double agents, double crossings, who is in the ant farm? OMNES MUNDUM FACIMUS, the Organization's motto: We all make the world.

Quote for Wednesday

"For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books had made her unreasonably independent." Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things

Fun Color Photographs!

I have been creating some fun color photographs. The images deal with the relationship between color & composition, and I manipulate the colors. D has encouraged me to get serious with it, so I have been making 17 X 22 prints, and framed 16 of them. I have a show in my office board room. Come by and take a look, most people have a reaction, often involving a smile.

Ten Questions for the Dalai Lama

We just watched Ten Questions for the Dalai Lama, a new film by Rick Ray, and recommend it to you. It has important information about the tragedy in Tibet and wonderful footage of an interview with the Dalai Lama in Daramsala, the home of the Tibetan government in exile and 150,000 refugees. I know, I know, not another global tragedy story. This one has a hook: 1.2 million Tibetans were murdered by the Chinese since their occupation, and 6,000 monastaries, schools and museums leveled into rubble. Who cares? We, you and I, are the largest trading partners with China, so each day we support this genocide. The film is much less soap-box than I am being, so don't let me scare you off, it is a delight.

Abundance

Today the word abundance tends to mean lots of Stuff, especially money and things you can buy with it. However, abundance manifests in many other ways: friends, family, music, art, literature, and the blessing of being interested in these things. So, on Thanksgiving, D and I celebrated the many types of abundance in our lives, including our friends A & L, A & M, and our new friend V. What a fun and rewarding day, filled with the joys of these friends.

Accidents in the Home

I bought Tessa Hadley's novel a couple of years ago and just got to it. Not exactly what I remembered: families, divorces, divorces, new families, aspirations. After a slow start: some wonderful vignettes, particularly one in which an aging potter worries that his third wife will discover that on some unnamed day his ability and desire to create wonderful things just evaporated into the wind, and he did not really care.

inspiration

My dear friend C.C. has a great blog of thoughtful, insightful, well written postings which inspired me to get started. Thanks, C!!!

mawidge, that bwessed event

D and I got married after having the great good fortune of meeting each other at a concert she played in two years ago. The wedding was pretty well outside the box, as you can see by the cake. The ceremony involved poetry, love-bombs, intentions, two crystal singing bowls. It was perfectly officiated by friend Michael of CO whose words were so meaningful to us all. We did it in a state park in SC, so my Mom could attend without traveling. It was a beautiful day and a great setting. Friends and family gather from all over the US and some flew across the Pacific ocean and one over the Atlantic to be there -- we were quite touched. At the reception, great toasts were made by Randy, Victor, John and Art. Dick delighted everyone by playing the William Tell Overture on the tonette. Hooray!

reading

I've started reading novels again after a year of reading a lot of research on meditation, sound, counsciouness. I recently enjoyed reading Nicole Krauss' The History of Love, a tender story of writing, love, loss. fun structure, good writing. also The House of Paper, Carlos Maria Dominguez: readers, collectors & fanatics, one star.