Eat Local And Eat In Abundance: Get a CSA or go to your local farmer’s market and see what is new every week. Get excited for something later in the summer and then enjoy it when it finally arrives. When something finally is harvested eat it until you are blue in the face while everything is …
This morning while I was writing I heard the familiar sound of geese honking and turned to look out the south-facing window to see hundreds of Canadian geese in route northward. Even on this frosty, but sunny March morning there is something so heart-warming about seeing the certainty of nature repeating itself. The geese have …
In our household 2013 has consisted of one week of exhaustion post holiday, two weeks of flu post exhaustion and then a week of catch up being normal. Needless to say on Friday morning last week when we made a grocery list we needed almost everything. Friday night we committed two fundamental, but wonderful errors, …
When I was in school I used to watch the weather daily through the winter to know which side of the state I needed to be on in order to get to school in Boston or teach a yoga class in Northampton. Nowadays there is nothing more pleasant than waking to a surprise morning of …
Scene: Santa Barbara City College. I’m nineteen, a part-time student, a full-time retail employee at Anthropologie, sitting in my night class: Cultural Anthropology. It’s the end of spring semester, and it stays light outside almost until the class ends at 9:00. Tonight: a guest speaker, an anthropology PhD student writing her dissertation on the use …
On The Mat And In the World: The Practice of Appreciation (Guest Post) Read More »
In our society, even this word is loaded. This is one of the many fights of my life. I am a sensual person. If anyone has ever seen me sick or with an injury they know that I have a very low pain threshold. I experience all the sensations of the body in a rather …
Sensuality: Why It Isn’t Sex and Why We Desperately Need More Of It Read More »
About a week ago I got together for a quick business meeting with a colleague and because it was brief she brought along her two kids. The two children were young, and full of life. They busied themselves around the room playing, while we discussed details. After about 10 minutes in my presence, mind you …