72 Days til Spring

Anecdote: Today during lunch someone told me a story of New Year’s Eve that very nearly caused me to snort water out my nose.  What is more important than sharing funny stories?  I’m sorry I can’t tell you the story here.  It involved a port-a-potty.   But let me go on to this…. Funny: What […]

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73 Days

Anecdote: We have snow today.  I began to think catastrophically.  Not because of the snow.  The snow was very pretty to my boots.  I went to yoga class.  We had a substitute teacher.  His favorite words were “wonderful” and “excellent.”  Someone farted in class twice, and everyone gently pretended not to hear.  I taught a […]

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Day 74

Deep spiritual thought: The future is only an illusion inferred from our present state.  What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life.  What is most important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.  Only then does your […]

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Day 75 of 77

Most of us are going back to work tomorrow, if we haven’t already. Most of us actually don’t hate our jobs, we just resist change and resist effort, even when the effort is effective. Wiggling and fretting at transition time is normal.  That’s how you get and stay limber to move through the work at […]

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