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Sacred Journey on PBS

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This documentary’s local, San Francisco/Bay Area showing is at 8pm Tuesday evening … but if you are unable to watch it, just stream it later…Sacred Journey …with Bruce Feiler. Sounds fascinating!

A “pilgrimage”… for me, it’s been about visiting the family grave in Japan and paying our respect to our ancestors. We exist today, thanks to our forebears. We’ve evolved into what we are today and within each of us is the long long lineage from generations before.

Where do you make your pilgrimage to? Where do you want to make the next pilgrimage to? It need not be exotic distant lands – For some, every time, we step into the forest; every time we climb a mountain or dive into the ocean…or watch a sunrise… and sunset … it’s a pilgrimage of sorts.

sm_IMG_9992_01– Californian Beach

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– Manhattan prayer time…
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– restoration taking place…
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– Where am I ? NYC …fortune cookie time:)

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– YES, I do.

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Wag-More-Bark-Less, the blog…

shibainu(from Pinterest – recalling there’s a photo just like this somewhere in our album:)

Inquired about this motto of mine – this bumper sticker would make a good stocking stuffer. Recently, I was reminded of this “mantra” as some man driving a sports car with road rage gave me the finger and yelled an unspeakable obscenity (lol) on LA highway (coming from N. Cal, I was apparently going too slow at 55mph on Santa Monica freeway…did you know it’s 65?). I was thrilled to see my mantra made into a bumper sticker – so weird to see my thoughts that came to me when we first adopted our shiba-inu many many years ago. He taught us so much of his dog-wisdom:) Life’s too short for rudeness, anger and fear. Smile with kindness to those haters… full of hope…perhaps some time out for yoga would help that man who will have high blood pressure & heart problems otherwise. To him and to all, Joy, Joy, Joy – remember, “wag more, bark less” !

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9 more days…a commercial break:)

Approaching The 11th Hour on this countdown to Christmas ~

With the rain, shopping via Amazon seems like such an easy “go – to” site BUT let’s also support local businesses – they make our town more exciting and worth living in when we do. If getting something yogic for the yogis and yoginis in your life, & if one were to be near San Francisco airport, check into local eco-green studio, such as Nandi yoga studio in San Mateo and get their gift package (“Shanti” gift basket is wonderful) or a quality yoga mat along with china jell (topical muscle tension/cramps/pain reliever) or a lavender lotion. Their boutique has a nice selection of Prana brand yoga wear…and real kind yogis who can help you.

Otherwise, here are some net shopping gift ideas, the very best one shared in the closing of the post … at first sharing a glimpse of health related books … just a few.

Cookbooks – vegan & not:


Food Thoughts Provoking Books:

Yoga Related Books:

Fun with Doggies & Kitties:

Then there are so many ideas that does not require lots of time wrapping. A gift of experience that celebrates a deepening bond – such as a concert or lecture tickets, sessions with personal trainer, massage, yoga therapy; a gift of learning, again a class you can do together – yoga, dance, cooking, etc. – and as far as learning … musical instruments, CDs, books. E-books are nice but I still like the good old fashioned paper bound books… especially when it comes to poetry, haiku … something about turning a real physical page.

It’s not so much the material object or a thing … as my mother always said – don’t get me anything you can get with money – “it’s the thought that counts.”

True PRESENT is the gift of being, “radically” PRESENT with that person before you.

(“radically present” quotes Judith H. Lasater… love the concept as hard as it is in practice.)