Notes from The nest
My last full asana practice was in July. After 4 surgeries on the chest, back, and armpit and 6 months of intense cancer treatment I can barely hold myself up in down dog, plank is a shaky quake, my hips are like wishbones waiting to split, and my toes might as well be in Long […]
It has been a while since I’ve posted, and I have been asked by friends and colleagues to update my progress. Over the course of my treatment, I have been reluctant to share the private and intimate details of my struggles. I have never felt so fragile and vulnerable in my life, and it takes […]
When I was about 15 years old, I had just moved from Montana to the Tempe area and I was doing some deep soul searching. I was finding ways of connecting to a place of peace within myself and learning how tame the monsters in my complicated, teenage mind. One day while walking around Kiwanis […]
One day I decided to give the boys some home lessons on American plants and animals that are endangered and on the brink extinction. We learned about the American chestnut tee (and its revival), the Texas Golden Gladecress, the Crimson Hawaiian Damselfyl, The Grey Wolf, American Bison, the West Indian Manatee, we even discovered the […]
This is a post that I wrote a while ago, however, I invite you to take the time to revisit it, as the messages it holds are ones that have been speaking to me much again these days. I feel that often we read something or study something and digest it too quickly, only to […]
