Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • Pain that hits out of the blue is the damn weirdest thing. I don’t know quite what I did that led to such deep pain in my left glute that I couldn’t bend at all from the waist without triggering it. Before that, I had been feeling pretty self-satisfied, what with daily walks and three…

  • This morning I sought inspiration through an online search on the words “dancer’s wisdom.” I found a link to a BBC piece on 77-year-old ballet dancer Suzelle Poole, still dancing, still teaching and looking back on a 70-year career. Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP214lJtKlM After watching, I saw that the video was created…

  • It’s pretty easy for me to get ensnared in outrage these days. But pragmatism suggests that it makes more sense to choose appropriate emotional responses, rather than react to every little (or big) thing. I’m returning to my morning ritual: starting the day with poetry rather than news. For that, The Poetry Foundation provides an…