Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Celebrating Emily King, who last summer broke a world record set in 1989 in the one-foot high kick at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics last July. What she did is kind of stunning: Standing on one foot, she leaps up and kicks a sealskin ball with that same foot then lands on that same foot. The…
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On our morning walk, Craig and I passed this cotoneaster, its red berries the brightest thing around on an otherwise rainy low-cloud-ceiling day. It buoyed my spirits which had been busy with gloom-of-winter thoughts. I noticed this emotional divergence — gloom vs. pleasure — having just listened to a “Hidden Brain” podcast about emotional resilience…
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Early in my daily Nia practice, I committed to memorizing Bloom, a lively and graceful routine that I always enjoy dancing. I had a strategy that I started but never quite followed through on. Last week, I got to dance Bloom with Dael Parsons, and I noticed how much more I was able to sink…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 