The simple truth. Here it is. I was on the elliptical playing the kind of mind games and juggling my many strategies to get through to the far side of thirty minutes. The machine gives you a four or five minute cool down period. It has been my choice to leave when I’ve finished...
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Two tea teetoallers
Two tea teetotallers topped it off with a cup of tea. It wasn’t peppermint tea. No, that wasn’t going to do. It wasn’t chamomile tea either although they wondered about the fields of popping yellow flowers all across Europe and wherever else it might grow. Golden fields of flowers that were just a cup...
Women have a right to be safe
I worry about women. All of us. My sister’s daughters. My friends and their daughters. The little girls in every country of the world. Someone once said that if anyone looked at the planet from a distance, one of their first questions would be, “Why are you hurting the women? Is there a war...
Teagong or stirring the soup
My qigong practice begins with stirring the soup. Right away I notice the interior dialogue that I’m having. It isn’t just dialogue. It’s lists and to dooz that I remembered I didn’t do. It’s imaginary conversations; even comebacks or responses I wish I had made. It is the stuff of talking with others or...
Jetty thoughts
I should have brought along cocktail sauce for my walk. I always think of binoculars when it’s too late. Same thing with the sauce. Yesterday I saw a duck-like bird with a red rust colored head and a body that looked like it was marked with wavy seismograph lines. That was from a distance...