If you don’t come out of this quarantine with a new skill or … more knowledge … you didn’t ever lack the time, you lacked the discipline. ~@thejeremyhaynes If I see one more post about how Shakespeare wrote King Lear while in a plague quarantine, I am going to scream. Nothing better illustrates America’s incessant […]
In 2007, Australian skateboarder Oliver Percovich arrived in Kabul with his three favorite skateboards. Percovich’s girlfriend had taken a research job in Afghanistan and Percovich tagged along, unsure about the next phase of his life. He spent the first few months skateboarding in an attempt to get to know his new home. After decades of […]
I have long said that humans have impulses that rise above our basic needs. Once our essential needs for food, shelter, and sex have been met, humans feel pulled toward higher imperatives. We want to find our purpose and we want to find our people. Quarantine is a perfect time to locate meaning; there is […]
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~J.R.R. Tolkein, The Fellowship […]
Found Izzie sitting on her bed today in tears. “What’s wrong Monster?” She removed the earbuds and wiped snot on her sleeve. “Mommy, have you ever heard a song that was so beautiful your heart gets really big really fast and it pushes on your lungs so hard you can’t breathe? Then you start crying […]
Be where your feet are. I say it a million times a day. To myself, my family, my yoga students. Just be here, right now. Stop running from everything. Stop running toward that unknowable future. Stop running around like a headless chicken, banging into walls. Be where your feet are. I now realize that this […]
