So for the last four years or so my wife has participated in Project 365 on Facebook. She would post of picture a day for a year. She took some great pictures. Here are a few from the beginning of last year. The first two are from those snowy days last February, which were nowhere near as cold as the days this year! This year you couldn’t even go out and take pictures!!
James Loved Boxes!
So i don’t know what the right music is for when you know you have to put a cat to sleep. We have now five cats. Two years ago we had to put our 19-year-old cat Simon to sleep and it was hard. I was doing really well not feeling to badly about the situation with our 10 year-old cat James this week, until this morning, when I faced the prospect of having to call the Vet and make the appointment!
Last night I decided that I would use Michael Brant DeMaria’s album The River as my yoga meditation music. As I was getting ready to meditate I began thinking about Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, a book and an author that I loved when I was in college. Didn’t many of us in the 60s and 70s. So I went to Goodreads and read some quotes from the book. Here are a few that I love.. You can read more here
The first album that I listened to today has been on the iPhone for about a week now,and this is really the first time that I listened to it all the way through. It’s the latest release from Grant Peeples & the Peeples Republik, Punishing the Myth This is Peeples’ fourth studio release and the third in s row produced by Gurf Morlix. I caught onto Peeples music at Prior Convictions the second Morlix produced album.
The first album that I listened to today has been on the iPhone for about a week now and this is really the first time that I listened to it all the way through. It’s the latest release from Grant Peeples & the Peeples Republik, Punishing the Myth This is Peeples’ fourth studio release and the third in s row produced by Gurf Morlix. I caught onto Peeples music at Prior Convictions the second Morlix produced album.
So for the last week or so I have been tried to start my day i.e. before I start my morning feeding of our five cats and cleaning liters boxes, etc. Welcome to my morning world! With three easy half sun salutations The half sun salutation is a perfect way to start the day or actually to relax any time during the day! You don’t need as much room, or to get on the floor for this one so it’s good for anywhere! Here are some instructions for the routine…..
So now it is time to relax unwind and get ready for sleep. For the last two weeks I have, on most mornings, done one of the days from the Yoga Journals 21 Day Yoga Challenge beginner series. Over the last forty years while never doing yoga on an everyday basis I have done it a lot. Predominately, Hatha yoga, but I also have done Iyengar yoga, and Kundalin, which I did for about a year. Usually I find that if I do yoga for a few days in a row I feel better, have a lighter step and more energy. Most times I catch myself asking why I feel so good and of course my response is you are doing yoga, duh! And then of course I stop! Why I don’t know! Anyway, over the last two weeks I am seeing the same results and while part of the wellness that I feel may be attributed to the fact that I am away from my self-inflicted stressful job I am still working around the house and feeling great!
Through the years Jerry Jeff Walker has introduced me to many great songwriters like Guy Clark,and Townes Van Zandt. Two other songwriters songs appear on the Jerry Jeff’s album Live at Gruene Hall.. First, three Chris Wall songs appear on the album “I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight”..”Trashy Women” and this one “Rodeo Wind” Can’t you just see that cowboy out in the barn saddling his horse, with his woman leaning against the frame of the barn door, as he gets ready to ride off into the sunset!
