Last day of summer
Posted: September 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Bicycle Adventures, cats, Critters, Earth, exercise, family, Fire, Fun!, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, weather | Tags: Cat, cycling, fall foliage, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Summer, Towpath Trail, trees, woods, Yoga 20 Comments
On the Towpath Trail yesterday
Just a quick post to mark the end of summer, and to say hello. I’m having fun with our visiting family person. We’ve been biking and hiking, talking and laughing, and generally having a great time, enjoying each other’s company. I’ll be back with something more substantial on Sunday. I will be ending my yoga challenge tomorrow and starting my meditation challenge on Sunday.
I hope you’ve had the time and opportunity to get out and enjoy this last day of summer. We had a surprisingly nice day. Surprising because they had been predicting rain. The rain did arrive a little while ago, but we got to spend most of the day outdoors before that happened and there was plenty of sunshine to go around.
Catch up with you soon!
Bella watching the sunset yesterday
Three things
Posted: August 21, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: Buddha, Elizabeth Gilbert, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Summer, trees, water, woods, Yoga 41 Comments
Adrift
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experiences and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I’m a failure… I’m lonely… I’m a failure… I’m lonely… ) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
A morning meditation
Posted: July 16, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, beginnings, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, goals, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer, Walking, weather | Tags: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, John O'Donohue, meditation, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Sarah Smiley, sunrise, sunset, trees, Yoga 49 Comments
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.
~ John O’Donohue, Anam Cara
The healing rains
Posted: May 30, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Earth, garden, goals, health, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: clouds, fog, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, rain, spring, sunset, trees, water, Yoga 43 Comments
I’ve been terribly busy this week. I feel swamped, and not just from the (very much needed!) heavy rains we’ve had over the past couple of days. So, I am doing what I always do when I feel overwhelmed. I’m taking a breather. A small break to put my thoughts and priorities in order.
What I might be doing
Posted: April 19, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, goals, health, Healthful Living Plan, home, Letting Go, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: flowers, nature, Outdoors, Photography, spring, trees, Yoga 26 Comments
It’s amazing how relieved I feel after posting yesterday. Four days off! Yay!
Day 139 Musings
Posted: February 10, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, cats, Critters, Earth, exercise, Fire, goals, health, Healthy Living Plan, home, nature, Photography, pond, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: cats, Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, snow, water, winter, Yoga 46 Comments
Sunset waves on the pond
When we focus on what we can get out of yoga, we miss the point. We also place ourselves in physical danger while sabotaging our relationship to our practice. To realize the beauty of yoga in our lives, we must never forget that the prize is in the process.
~ Rolf Gates & Katrina Kenison, Meditations From the Mat
A moonlit interlude
Posted: January 10, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Earth, Fire, full moon, goals, health, home, Letting Go, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: full moon, ice, moonlight, nature, Photography, pond, water, winter, Yoga 53 Comments
Up at six o’clock this morning, I unrolled my yoga mat in the moonlight that was pouring through the living room windows. It is day 107 of my year-long yoga challenge.
Life in the Bogs 