Category: Exercise
-
Some things that caught my eye on a rainy January walk on a trail that skirts the Coast Fork Willamette River at the Mount Pisgah Arboretum: Catkins on an unknown kind of tree. I know alders have them. Also hazelnuts. It’s hard to recognize trees without their leaves. Then, shrubby snowberry in front of a…
-
Bring it on! In her book on making changes, behavioral economist Katy Milkman calls it the fresh start effect. Everybody else calls it New Year’s resolutions. I love them and I do them, and sometimes they do me proud. Buying and reading Milkman’s book “How to Change” gave me a suite of tools to help…
-
Thursday I danced a new-to-me Nia routine that included a few steps I’ve never done in quite the way we did them. It got me thinking about why I revel in both the new and the familiar in dance. There’s research describing reasons for this. The brain gets a dopamine hit from new experiences. Dopamine…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 