Archive for July, 2007
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007How is it I’ve ended up the one thing in the world I never, never wanted to be? (Besides poor planning, lack of confidence, educational deficiencies, laziness.) I swore I would NOT be like my stepmother. Not ever. I despised everything about her, starting with the fact that she stole my dad from his […]
“Four Things” Meme:
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 Yogamum kindly passed this on to me, so I will be a good sport and play (hey!—I’m tryin’ to have a serious blog here!—no really, it was fun).
Four jobs I’ve had:
Photographer
Scientist/analyst
Medicaid billing clerk for a mental health center
Owner of a photography/pottery gallery
Four movies I can watch over and over:
Shall We Dance (1996, the Japanese version)
Twelfth Night (1996, with Ben Kingsley, […]
Who Would Jesus Deport?
Sunday, July 29th, 2007The other day, my husband and I were driving toward downtown when I spotted a handmade cardboard sign duct-taped to a pole: “Jail and deport all illegal immigrants now. It’s the law!” It was a very angry sign; what other mindset would you be in to go to the trouble to hand letter signs like that and […]
Slow And Steady
Sunday, July 29th, 2007It’s a moon day and I’m going to a Mysore class. (Somebody arrest that woman! Verboten, verboten.) My practices have been scanty this week and I need to go. Plus classes offer their own special challenges. They force me to up the concentration level, or I leave feeling dissatisfied—as if I’ve spent the entire […]
This Adventure Called Blogging
Saturday, July 28th, 2007There’s so much to write about that some days I find myself paralyzed. And then there’s the wondering if I have anything really worthwhile to add to the conversation in the first place. I am truly not sure that I do, but I enjoy the writing and if some people think I’m full of […]
Ironing HTML (I WISH It Were That Simple)
Friday, July 27th, 2007Somehow my html has gotten screwed up and my blog looks horrible in IE—the text is all cluttered up and huge. Since that’s what most of the world uses, that means my site looks horrible to most of the world. Aaargh. Please bear with me. I suppose it’s looked like that […]
It’s A Human Construct: This Dichotomy
Thursday, July 26th, 2007The cross hanging on the wall in the yoga shala was a lovely gift when I noticed it during practice—a reminder that yoga and Christianity don’t have to be at odds, that these two loves of mine are not natural enemies. I e-mailed the owner to thank her, and she wrote back: ”I hoped it […]
The Taskmaster Meditates (Woe To You, Part II)
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007The “unloading of the unconscious.” Sounds innocuous enough. Well it isn’t. It Damn Well Is Not. Thomas Keating uses this term to describe a healing process wherein, as a result of consistent meditation practice, all your carefully concealed garbage presents itself for the world to see. It’s like a coming-out party for the two-headed step […]
Woe To You
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007if you come upon me and I’ve skipped my morning meditation. So if you see me coming with a frown on my face, eyes drawn in and vacant, flee. On second thought, it’s hard to tell if fish eyes are drawn in and vacant. . . .
Honestly, I hardly ever skip, because I know I will feel […]
I Made A Deal (And: An Apology)
Friday, July 20th, 2007I was thinking of telling my husband I would write every day if he practiced yoga every day. It would be a big, big bribe. It would be a big, big bribe because, although I wanted him to practice and nothing else seemed to be motivating him, I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to go […]
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