Posted in business, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on May 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
“If your life’s work can be accomplished in your lifetime, then you aren’t thinking big enough.” ~ Wes Jackson It’s so easy to fall in love with our ideas, so in love that we become blind to the glaring gaps and omissions that need to be thought through carefully. I had dinner with my friend, [...]
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Posted in health, medical, military, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on May 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
New York Times Quotation of the Day: “A lot of people were excited about coming home. Me, I just sat there and I wondered: What am I coming back to?” ~ Sgt. Brian Keith, part of the First Battalion, 87th Infantry in Fort Drum, N.Y., which recently finished a yearlong tour in Afghanistan This quote [...]
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Posted in books, learning, yoga on May 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“One learns to fall gracefully in order to roll.” ~ Matthew Sanford Two weeks later, I’m still thinking about Matthew Sanford’s talk at the Yoga Journal Conference. His book, Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence had a profound effect on me, how I see the world, and how I see my own yoga practice [...]
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Posted in moving, New York City, travel, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on May 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The social summer is just about to begin this weekend, and already I was planning my Fall. An apartment lost I have been considering a move to a new apartment after my lease expires in September. I found one with my current management company and put in an application a few weeks ago. A completely [...]
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Posted in choices, decision-making, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
“When the why gets big enough the how takes care of itself. ” ~ Universal Law Chiroyogi, a reader of my blog, left the quote above on my post about my future plans for Compass Yoga. At first, I was struck by how simple this universal law seems and then after I reflected on all [...]
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Posted in happiness, healthcare, values, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Figure out your service on this planet. Figure out how that service nourishes the Earth and go do that.” ~ Elena Brower On Monday night, through a tip from the always-in-the-know Yogadork and by the grace of Mike Kim, I was able to attend the Sustainable Happiness event at the Urban Zen Center. The talk [...]
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Posted in education, tagged postaday2011 on May 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last week every major news outlet in the U.S. ran a story, or several stories, about the just-released Pew Research Center study entitled “Is College Worth It?” The study found that “57% of Americans now believe the value of higher education is not worth the cost.” I first heard about this study in the elevator [...]
Posted in business, career, meditation, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on May 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
In the past week, I have started to put together a business plan that will facilitate my goal of working on my own business full time. The admission of this goal has been a long time coming; for years I have tried to figure out what a lifelong career working for someone would look like [...]
Posted in creative process, creativity, inspiration, love, New York City, nostalgia, tagged postaday2011 on May 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
“Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.” ~ Robert Frost, seen on the chalk board over the bar at Heidi’s House by the Side of the Road I went to Heidi’s House by the Side of the Road last week with a small group of friends. It’s [...]
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