Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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There’s something about the routine “Alchemy,” that satisfies. Dancing it this morning before a busy feast day gets underway, I was struck by its combination of powerful and yet deeply feminine moves. I’ve written so much about the feelings that come up for me while dancing. Today, especially toward the end during the steps to…
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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…
