Yesterday I started writing this sappy syrupy sickly sad post called “Requiem for Love Lost.” Perhaps one day I will finish it. I was thinking about Gogo (who I saw last weekend!), T, and D. I am not a stranger to loss. And those are just the losses of the past six months. (Not really [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gogo’
on my way to another burn
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Asylum Village, burning man, element 11, ex-mormon, gogo, Heather and Stacy, Madagascar Institute, moroni, pineapple camp, Twitter, yoga on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
one year later
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged a series of small failures, census worker, cherries, gogo, mormon resignation, natural high, personal chef, pooka, private yoga, puerto rico, Rincon, salon, same-sex marriage, Utah on April 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Though everything outside this morning was flocked heavier than any christmas tree, it feels like springtime for me. (It helps that much of last night’s heavy snow has already melted!) Today marks my one year anniversary of leaving Puerto Rico and moving to Utah. It has been a very difficult year, chronicled in my old [...]
aparigraha — non attachment
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aparigraha, gogo on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is about giving up something that I didn’t want to let go of, and never thought I could — Gogo. Aparigraha, the fifth of the yamas, or ethical constraints, is defined as abstaining from greed (Patanjali’s Yoga sutras). In the Tree of Yoga, Iyengar calls it “freedom from hoarding or [...]
tapas and twists
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gogo, iyengar, krishna das, pooka, tapas, twists, yoga on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This afternoon, I knelt down, palms pressed together at my heart, thumbs resting on the breastbone, and bowed to my inner perfection, that part of me that doesn’t want to rip someone’s head off at t-mobile, or swear when someone cuts me off driving, or feel uncharitable toward the person who has been [...]
