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I am moved by some of these artists and yoga teachers who are shining their light in this dark times … today, there’s Mariko Hirakawa’s Visionary Yoga class “Yoga for Calm” at 6:30pm EST hailing from New York. If you are freed up, this would be helpful. It appears to be donation of min. $2 so that’s affordable !

https://www.holler.com/e/mariko/visionary-yoga-peace-calm-218

There was Scott Blossom’s Yoga for Fortitude this moring at 7am PST, recording to which is supposed to become available soon – also a good practice today.

Then there are children playing in the streets as they should in the outdoors while joggers and bikers zips by without masks shedding whatever they shed into the ether around us… It’s Vata season and they exacerbate it. While I try not to be a paranoid COPD, was it Andy Grove who wrote “Only the Parnoid Survive”?

Take care of yourself everyone … you can’t shine your light if you extinguish … keep refueling and avoid those winds that whips by with no regard to public health. Stay calm be yoga.

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On the mend … on the mend, taking things slowly in hopes to take all in stride by doing what I had avoided – organizing, planning and thinking … to be better prepared. Prepared for what?

“Little Fires Everywhere” by Cleste Ng was the book up for discussion for our very first Book Club. Had powered through it and finished it 30 mintues before the meeting so … everything was still very fresh in my mind. Highly recommended book that explores mother/daughter relationships and how a toxic parent can extinguish a child’s passion and talents due to the parents’ own fears about uncertainties and the unkowns. Mia is the catalysit, an agent of transformation for Izzy … Sometimes we just need to get together and talk about something other than the causes of stress – the election, the pandemic, the economy, the to-do-list to check-off that includes one’s health directive … a living will. It’s never too early to think about what’s plannable – then – no longer able to plan, we just accept and let go.

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Unhurried … taking “things” in stride as stressful as this week can be. Taking things in stride … what does that look like?