#73

#73 January 4, 2011 A happy and fulfilling 2011 to you. For the rest of January I’ll be in Guanajuato, Mexico. I’ll be studying Spanish at a language school there, and I’ll be living with a local family. I am quite excited. I imagine my brain cells...

#72

#72 December 28, 2010 Pause and breathe . . . appreciate where you are . . . breathe . . . appreciate who you are . . . breathe. Repeat often.

#71

#71 December 21, 2010   Happy Holidays… Remember: you have nothing to prove.  Remember: everyone gets to be who they are, and that includes you. Remember: appreciation — of others as they are, but especially of yourself as you are — is a...

#70

#70 December 14, 2010 There is no template for impeccability, but there is this: if you do something that you know (feel, suspect, believe) is bad for you, it is very likely bad for you. If you do something that you know (etc.) is good for you, it is very likely good...

#70 Return to Breath and Water

I didn’t breathe for two months. First a fierce cough, and then pneumonia and a fierce cough, kept my breathing tiny and shallow and kept me at a low level of functioning. Even after my physical symptoms were gone, my breathing was inadequate. I’d fallen...