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Of birthdays and boats | Old Dog Paw's Blog
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Old Dog Paw’s Blog. Of birthdays and boats. There’s an old story, a joke kind of, about a man sitting on a rooftop in the middle of a flooded city. The water is continuing to rise, and he’s sitting there watching it get closer and closer to his feet. Pretty soon, a boat comes by and the driver of the boat says, We’re so glad we found you! Come in the boat and we’ll get all of us to safety! The man smiles at the captain of the boat and says, I’m okay. God will save me. And the boat goes away. God smiles w...
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Divine litmus | Old Dog Paw's Blog
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Old Dog Paw’s Blog. Who is actually in line with God’s will? We are wrong, by the way, in our conception of God… but I will cover that another time.). Probably, I sound more new age than I would like. Probably, I sound more optimistic than is characteristic for me. Probably, I don’t sound rigorous. And maybe I am giving up on empiricism, on pessimism and pragmatism, and rigor. Would that be bad? Is it somehow less credible to be gentle? If it will, is it fair to say God is with you? No one has to take th...
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Bookish Bent: Eat, Pray, Love
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Because I always have a book by my side. Monday, June 16, 2008. Eat, Pray, Love. Note: Today I'm publishing a special guest post from my. Friend and blog author I frequent,. Her book reviews on GoodReads usually crack me up, so I wanted to share one (and probably more in the future) with you today. Here's her take on. Eat, Pray, Love. By Elizabeth Gilbert. After you read the review, check her blog. She's hilarious and insightful - hilariously insightful, if you will.]. Eat, Pray, Vomit. Ha ha NO. I d...
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Do not try, just do. | 26 and 2
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Teaching, taking… and learning. Do not try, just do. December 2, 2009. After teacher training, this should be a piece of cake. Friends, I am back to boldly proclaim that I am doing a 101 day Bikram Yoga Challenge beginning January 1, 2010. It’s simple, 101 classes in 101 days. You know the drill. Funny enough, I did 102 classes in my nine weeks (63 days) at teacher training. This should feel like a vacation, right? Here is the blog that inspired me. Filed in 101 Days. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Outside ...
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On preparing to grieve | Old Dog Paw's Blog
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Old Dog Paw’s Blog. On preparing to grieve. Do I float in stasis, living in a kind of vigil-state; do I cook copiously so that I’ll have food for the winter of my grief; do I meditate to store other, much more precious resources; or do I go to movies, surf the Internet, play games and see friends in these days while life is still calm? We have to look forward to. Losing things in order to fight to keep them. Does that mean we should accept loss? If we accept loss, will we still experience grief? We may b...
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Me and Mr. Warren | Old Dog Paw's Blog
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Old Dog Paw’s Blog. Me and Mr. Warren. It’s gotten harder to be a gay man. Not because of the marriage equality issue; not because of medieval-minded right-wingers like Rick Warren; not because the pandering of politicians to the gay community appears to have less substance than ever before. It’s gotten harder to be a gay man because it simply isn’t fashionable to not be queer. What’s “queer”? Well, in the beginning, it was a theory; and the theory said that all –. A kind of diverse homogeneity. This doe...
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Taking the fall… | 26 and 2
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Teaching, taking… and learning. Taking the fall…. December 5, 2009. This is a blog about budo, not yoga. I stand five feet and seven inches above the surface of the earth. I’m not that tall by most standards. Average height. The ground is not so far away. Or so I thought. Falling is a different world. Several weeks ago sensei pulled out the mat and said. I watch my teacher toss himself over on the mat so beautifully. It’s wonderfully graceful and he always comes out so nicely. I remember th...Oh, right, ...