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Resistance | PRACTICE
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Resistance January 22, 2011. My dearest friend posted on her wise and witty blog. A question that I ask myself again and again: why do we resist what is good for us? So why do we (or just I) resist? Behind my resistance is fear. When I was younger, in my early twenties, I used to shake my head pityingly at people who confessed they were sometimes afraid to do things, or take action. “What in the world is there to be afraid of? So what does this have to do with resistance? Jonah, who resisted God’s ...
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Heels Over Head | PRACTICE
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Heels Over Head October 16, 2010. 8221; I am weighed down with weakmindedness; I am confused and cannot understand my duty. I beg of you to say for sure what is right for me to do. I am your disciple. Please teach me, for I have taken refuge in you.” —. Ajuna to Lord Krishna, 2:7 “The Living Gita”. Really, why was I listening to the voice that was telling me I was a failure, and that if I couldn’t produce a work of genius I would have no excuse for my overly-emotional personality? Francesca came over and...
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Bhakti | PRACTICE
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Bhakti February 9, 2011. 8220;Nothing evolves us. Like love.”. It’s February and our bodies are dense with cold and fatigue; though the sun is setting a little later every night, we are still deep in winter and most likely staying inside, maybe even turning inward. So I love that this month my yoga studio has decided the theme of February is Bhakti or devotion. I never feel less devoted to. This knowledge related particularly to the idea of karma and one’s relationship to God. For traditional B...8221; A...
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Be Here Now | PRACTICE
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Be Here Now October 1, 2010. Perfectionism takes us out of process–and this is a problem for me because life is a process, and when we set artificial goals of perfection, and deny the reality of process, much hysteria and bewilderment ensues when life continues to remain flawed. Case in point: my wedding. My wedding, actually, from my perspective. I think I was just unsure how long transformative fire lasts. In my imagination, Randy and I passed through a ring of fire on our wedding day that changed ...
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What Was Your Best Summer Read Ever? « Pink of Perfection
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Laquo; Potato and Pea Curry. Open-Faced Turkey Burgers with Gruyère, Mushrooms & Arugula Salad. June 7, 2011. Hat Was Your Best Summer Read Ever? I have a memory of lying in the sunshine on a towel spread over the small patch of gritty, damp sand beside Square Lake, my wet hair dripping over my shoulders. I was reading a thick hardcover copy of. Valley of the Dolls. Smart suits, and the scandals of young women in 1960s New York. It was heaven. We’re not talking trash (at least, not necessarily)R...
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rescue | a most imperfect paradise
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A most imperfect paradise. Thoughts on abilities, love, and other details of life on earth. Tuesday, November 19, 2013 in ability. I see crisis a lot in my life. I work around it, and I have experienced a few of them myself. If I have learned anything in my life, it is that little things count, sometimes much more than the big things. If the grand event thrills us, it is the consistency of those small things that sustains us. I coped. I managed. We survived. In reality, I was embarrassed. He must have kn...
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Akon – Right Now (Na Na Na) | Paradise Reason
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Letting The Thoughts Sail Free…Come Catch A Ride! Akon – Right Now (Na Na Na). Akon’s Right Now (Na Na Na) lights up Week 3’s Music Monday. So sit back, and if you’re at work, school, or at home…just let the music and worries flow free! By paradisereason on October 26, 2009. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Get Updated Via Email. On HPR...
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Lofty Optimism or “How My Hair Saved My Life.” | Onward All...
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Pieces of Jennifer Peterman. What You Need to Know…. Lofty Optimism or “How My Hair Saved My Life.”. INTERIOR. IKE’S APARTMENT-DAY. The camera shows a tape recorder, the cassette wheels turning inside the case. An idea for a short story…(. About, um, tsch, people in Manhattan who, uh who are constantly creating these real, uh, unnecessary neurotic problems for themselves ’cause it keeps them from dealing with, uh, more unsolvable, terrifying problems about, uh, the universe. Into the microphone, sighing).
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possum | a most imperfect paradise
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A most imperfect paradise. Thoughts on abilities, love, and other details of life on earth. Thursday, November 21, 2013 in change. I turned quickly when I felt my tires hit the curb, wondering how I had done it, backing straight out. I saw it then: a possum looked up and jerked, then fell slowly to the ground, where it stopped moving entirely. This time, the possum really was dead. Possums must be the most familiar road kill, I told myself as the evening grew later, and I came to the bitter realizati...
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