Just a quick reading break!
Just a quick reading break!
Just a quick reading break!
Just a quick reading break!
Speak your truth. This is the word on the holistic street. Sometimes it is hard, challenging and scary. And when you do speak your truth what happens? Do people really want to know? Not always, even if they say they do.
Speak your truth. This is the word on the holistic street. Sometimes it is hard, challenging and scary. And when you do speak your truth what happens? Do people really want to know? Not always, even if they say they do.
So I’m on line a lot. A whole lot. And today was a day of getting down to some planning of events and workshops for the Fall “semester”, or so I thought. A productive day for sure, meetings and schedules getting solidified, workshops taking more concrete shape. But do you ever have one of those days, where no one that you really need to hear form is emailing you back? Where your computer world just sloooows down? Facebook is quieter than normal, the inbox is full, but only of spam, does this ever happen to you? Well, today was that day for me, and I couldn’t help myself: I just kept on checking. Kept on going back to my laptop. And my laptop by the way! I love it! Truly. It’s sleek pseudo-enviro-friendly-aluminum-macbook pro-unibody, and long lasting battery, make me feel better about using it a lot. And don’t even get me started about my ical! But when nothing’s going on, why can’t I just take the hint and turn it off? Isn’t this is the more sustainable choice that praising the more earth friendly features of my closest computer friend? It may have taken me all day to learn this but I can take a hint. Really.
So I’m on line a lot. A whole lot. And today was a day of getting down to some planning of events and workshops for the Fall “semester”, or so I thought. A productive day for sure, meetings and schedules getting solidified, workshops taking more concrete shape. But do you ever have one of those days, where no one that you really need to hear form is emailing you back? Where your computer world just sloooows down? Facebook is quieter than normal, the inbox is full, but only of spam, does this ever happen to you? Well, today was that day for me, and I couldn’t help myself: I just kept on checking. Kept on going back to my laptop. And my laptop by the way! I love it! Truly. It’s sleek pseudo-enviro-friendly-aluminum-macbook pro-unibody, and long lasting battery, make me feel better about using it a lot. And don’t even get me started about my ical! But when nothing’s going on, why can’t I just take the hint and turn it off? Isn’t this is the more sustainable choice that praising the more earth friendly features of my closest computer friend? It may have taken me all day to learn this but I can take a hint. Really.
AHIMSA: this word has popped up quite a few times for me in the past 24 hours and I think it is a good sign! Do no harm.
AHIMSA: this word has popped up quite a few times for me in the past 24 hours and I think it is a good sign! Do no harm.
Do you know someone, a teacher or practitioner of some complementary medicine, that exemplifies the spirit of the quote of the day?
Do you know someone, a teacher or practitioner of some complementary medicine, that exemplifies the spirit of the quote of the day?
I just re-joined facebook recently and I am still struggling with the whole “status” thing. When, if, what, how. Or not. And then I came across this really great quote which put my feelings about bodywork, yoga and teaching into a not-too-wordy phrasing. And now, of course, I am plastering this awesome quote everywhere.
I just re-joined facebook recently and I am still struggling with the whole “status” thing. When, if, what, how. Or not. And then I came across this really great quote which put my feelings about bodywork, yoga and teaching into a not-too-wordy phrasing. And now, of course, I am plastering this awesome quote everywhere.
Kahnawake 20 years later. Many folks at the recent pow wow, myself included, said: “20 years after what?” The Oka crisis. Oh. I remember, I was a teenager then and it was on the television all the time. What can I say? Thinking about it now and every time I go to Kahnawake I tear up. I am sensitive. And there is a lot to say. It just doesn’t feel productive for me to go on and on about native land issues and human rights issues so I’ll just say this so you can know where I am coming from before I go on about how this does relate to sustainability:
Kahnawake 20 years later. Many folks at the recent pow wow, myself included, said: “20 years after what?” The Oka crisis. Oh. I remember, I was a teenager then and it was on the television all the time. What can I say? Thinking about it now and every time I go to Kahnawake I tear up. I am sensitive. And there is a lot to say. It just doesn’t feel productive for me to go on and on about native land issues and human rights issues so I’ll just say this so you can know where I am coming from before I go on about how this does relate to sustainability:
Welcome! and be forewarned for many more exclamation marks to come.
What does this even mean? Sustainable You? It can mean so many things, sustainable is such a trendy hipster phrase these days, which is cool, but really at the root of living sustainably is getting to know yourself (and others and the rest of the natural world), which is also cool. And it’s what I am into.
So here will be many things that I find are sustainable and why. Things that help me to connect and re-connect to my community, the earth, and mostly myself, ’cause it all starts there.
So, yes, in essence another self-help blog. What can I say? and really, what can you expect in 2010, anyway?
Self-help is where it’s at. Help yourself first, get out of your own way and out into your world.
Welcome! and be forewarned for many more exclamation marks to come.
What does this even mean? Sustainable You? It can mean so many things, sustainable is such a trendy hipster phrase these days, which is cool, but really at the root of living sustainably is getting to know yourself (and others and the rest of the natural world), which is also cool. And it’s what I am into.
So here will be many things that I find are sustainable and why. Things that help me to connect and re-connect to my community, the earth, and mostly myself, ’cause it all starts there.
So, yes, in essence another self-help blog. What can I say? and really, what can you expect in 2010, anyway?
Self-help is where it’s at. Help yourself first, get out of your own way and out into your world.