Professionally Bendy!

Many congratulations to jak, who is has officially been hired by Tranquil Space Bethesda as a substitute teacher!!

roomba!

they claim it is loyal, patient, and easily trained. will clean up after itself (and us).

(my mom is great!)

Learning to accept help

An important feature of yoga at the studio jak and I go to is "assists" by the teacher. The teacher moves around the room while the class is in progress, gently pushing, pulling or just guiding as needed to help the students with their poses.

For a long time, I hated it when this happened. I was convinced it meant that I was doing the pose wrong, and mostly served to make me feel like I wasn't any good at whatever pose I was working on. In my mind there was a right way to do the pose and a wrong way to do the pose, and if the teacher had to come over to me to fix me then there wasn't much question as to which way I was doing it.

Looking back now, I just have to shake my head and laugh at myself.

zen habits - may challenge

idea talked about here, which i got from steegness (good luck, by the way).

the habit i want to start is practicing spanish every day. evenings, after dinner (7 ish or 9 ish depending on if it's a yoga/hiking day or not).

may asana

the may asana of the month is marichyasana. for a change it's a seated pose that requires more flexibility (and patience) than balance or strength.

Linderman was wrong

The future turns out not to be such a nice place.

(If this post makes no sense to you, it is because you have not been watching Heroes. Shame.)