Throughout my years different things have been my focus and primary activity. It has been school, it has been yoga, it has been circus arts and theatre, it has been being a friend and having fun with friends. Now, I am solidly in a place where my primary activity is work. I have a career I believe in, an extraordinary job, and a measure of ( Read more... )

Three weeks later my knee is about 75% better. It's still fragile and I have to be careful with it, but I can do most non-athletic things now. The whole experience has been... thought provoking. It makes me yet more appreciative of my normal, mostly uninjured state. Even during year 2 of my 2 year (mostly) recovery from my last injury, for 90% of ( Read more... )

When the rain comes down like this, a rain that makes the air look hazy, a rain that would soak you in just a few moments of standing absorbed in it, it often makes me think of New Orleans. It's a rain that, to me, speaks of adventure. I once stood out on some street in the French Quarter some time in the Summer of 1995 and chose to get drenched in ( Read more... )

Let us remember that the United States was built on genocide, slavery, and exploitation of the poor. Caring for each other has never been a primary value, particularly not caring for people who are different than you are. The America that can be "great *again*" is a terrible place. Furthermore, American late stage capitalism is deeply unsustainable ( Read more... )

How people who hadn't exercised in ages ever survived my yoga classes I have no idea. I'm getting back to it slowly to avoid injury. Here's the start and the plan.

Start:
As daily as possible:

1. 4 Purifications
2. 5 cat/cow and hip rotations in each direction
3. Calisthenics
4. Asana and/or the 5 Tibetans

Details ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream of a raven that was in the water at the edge of the ocean. Swimming. He came out and looked at me, very close to my face. I can still see his face. His head and beak were really large. Clearly raven rather than crow. Then there was a hammerhead shark in the water and people were rushing to get out of the water. And the ( Read more... )

As usual, I've been meaning to write forever. Life is grand. Everything is working out well. My relationship is awesome. I'm in fine health. Work is good. Finances are stable. Family relations are swell. Friends are wonderful. I'm on track with clear goals for the future ( Read more... )

The people I love, I love forever. And that is not a virtue. It is simple how I work.

I've been asked number of times for the meaning of my tattoo and have kind of stumbled about describing it. So I'm feeling inspired to come up with a way to talk about it and create/record that here ( Read more... )

Reading some science articles I realized a fundamental division between science I enjoy and science I don't enjoy. Science I enjoy explores the history of our planet and of space or seeks to explain how physical things work. Science I don't enjoy tends to try and constrain the metaphysical world or tell individual people how to live their lives and ( Read more... )