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The Little Things
If you aren’t happy now, you might never be and I know why.* You are missing out on the pleasure of the little things in your daily life. A joyful life is a series of small events, micro-moments, little tickles of happiness brought about by acute awareness of each moment that passes. Many of us…
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Running a Retreat
After 18 months at 555, I am finally ready to open the space to the public for a Drawing Meditations retreat. Won’t you take this as a great excuse to visit? These times definitely call for some quiet and self-care. With everything going on in the world and in your life specifically, give yourself a…
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Project 2025 Bingo – Day 1
Well, here we are at the first day of our 100 day bingo game. I am finding stamp-worthy articles in the news already and the White House website lists all of the executive orders signed during the inauguration. No BINGO yet, but the card is filling up. I will continue to update this through the…
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Vigyan Bhairav Tantra No. 79
I set myself up for the weirdest meditation experience this morning. On Sunday my yoga class practices meditation. We have tried many techniques over the years – everyone has a different way of getting to their inner silence and we don’t know what will trigger an interesting insight. So we try as many as I…
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Winter colors
We had a big wind storm yesterday and this morning when I went to remove fallen branches and cedar debris from the driveway, I remembered a video of someone making color from pinecones. We have an abundance of cedar cones always blowing down on the driveway. Free color! I did a little test with some…
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3 modes of me
I seem to have three mental modes: Hyper GSD; (Anti-)Social Butterfly; and Napping Hermit. Maybe it’s how I am all the time but I notice it more when Tod isn’t here. And this week, he is in Tokyo for work. Hyper GSD Getting Shit Done. I get a lot of big, heavy, or challenging projects…
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The Shed
It’s not exactly a shed. It’s a gatehouse-atelier-kura-shed with a basement. I love how it completes a triangle of buildings to form a compound. As you come up our driveway, the gatehouse stands tall and imposing at the top of the hill. The barn doors open into “B1,” the concrete structure that holds our grass…
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Moriya Beach
Today was the last day of a very long and relaxed New Year holiday. Tod & I did just about nothing all week. We puttered around the house, made meals, and played with the cats. We missed midnight. Haven’t been to a temple yet. I didn’t even see friends’ Line greetings until today. This morning…
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Project 2025 Bingo – pregame
We are just about two weeks from Day 1 of this bingo. I’ve been trying to keep track of the topics on the card and to be honest, it’s already a challenge. It should get easier when the 100 days begin since there will be news about what’s happened, rather than speculation. But using speculation…
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Remembering Philo
I didn’t expect this would hit me so hard. I met Philo Hagen only twice in person. I couldn’t call him a friend, but my life between 2008 and 2018 was shaped his influence and our online collaborations. I left my “hooping era” years ago, and so did he, but now he is gone from…
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