June 1, 2021 - I read an article in the New York Times today that was talking about how beneficial it is to honestly define how you you feeling. It said that no matter what you are feeling, defining your feelings truthfully makes you feel better. That’s pretty cool, and very much goes along wit...

June 30, 2021 - Tyler Downs, a 17-year old, won the 3-meter springboard completion at the US Olympic Trials to qualify for the Olympics. He wasn’t expected to win, and the Olympics will be only his 2nd international competition. In fact, he beat out his 32-year old idol and two-time Olymipan, D...

June 8, 2021 - Yesterday I was in City Hall Park, and one of the men that I see in the park a lot who seems to be experiencing homelessness right now, was lying in the sun. It wasn’t a good idea, because it was in 90s yesterday. A friend of his came over to tell him is he should move, but he ju...

June 2, 2021 - Yesterday I meet up with three guys who were finishing up a bicycle tour around Vermont going to various breweries. I originally ran into them last week when they started their trip (a previous class). It was really great seeing these guys again. I thought a lot about why it was s...

June 11, 2021 - Gratitude is always just a great thing to practice. It's amazing how once you start down the road of thinking of things you are grateful for, you never get to the end. :-)

June 29, 2021 - While we were out West, we were driving from Laramie, Wyoming (my home town), down to Colorado Springs, where my mom and one of my brothers lives. It’s around a 3 hour drive, and we had extra time, so I texted one of my brothers who had lived in the mountains in Colorado, and ask...

June 28, 2021 - During the last couple weeks I was out west seeing family and friends. It was totally great. Part of the time we were out there I visited my mom, who as I have mentioned before, has dementia, but is in general a happy person, which is a great. A few weeks before we arrived my mo...

June 9, 2021 - I started listening to a new book called “Noise.” I’ve just started in on it, but so far so good - it’s really interesting. The general premise of the book is that we all experience “noise” in our lives that effects how we act. It might be the heat, how much exercise we’ve had, if...

June 3, 2021 - I got a haircut! It was amazing to go to my barber, who I haven’t seen in 15 months, and have it feel “normal”. Every day is another experience of seeing that we are close to the other side of COVID, at least in Vermont, and it’s amazing. In class we celebrate being illuminated ...

June 7, 2021 - On Friday Jane and I and some friends went to Backside 405 in Burlington for what we thought was a DJ dance party. As it turned it, the 2nd half of the evening was a DJ dance party, but the first half was a Drag Show. It was awesome!

Lots of fake and real breasts, dancing, Cher,...

June 4, 2021 - After focusing on the breath yesterday, I wanted to keep going with the breath today. There is a method of breathing called Viloma "A" Breath, or more understandably, Interrupted Inhalation Breathing.

How it works is you Inhale 1/3 of the way, hold, inhale another 1/3, hold, inha...

June 10, 2021 - I’ve been teaching morning classes every weekday on Zoom since March of 2020. I don’t know if I’ve ever done anything so consistently for such a long period. It being on Zoom makes it a lot easier - no struggle with getting myself to a studio…I just need to get myself to my livin...