Tag Archives: health

The Reflecting Mirror

I walked along a pond today.  It’s December and the air has been brittle; recent snows articulate every bony slash of tree, every cornhusk.  It isn’t snowing today.  Today the air is still.  The pond has only recently frozen over and as I passed the whole thing resounded with a crack and a resonant rumble.  The

Why Doesn’t She Leave?

Whenever we hear of a domestic violence situation we ask why she puts up with it.  By far the most common question asked about violence in relationships is: ‘why doesn’t she just leave?’. We respond this way out of a gut feeling, a revulsion and hope all twisted up into one emotion: we want the woman

Practice

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man’s own unless each day he maintain it and work it out in his life.  – Epictetus I had a teacher who often reminded me I was doing a yoga practice, not a yoga performance.  A yoga practice is not easy to build or