“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen “Perseverance is the hard worl you do after getting tired of the hard work you did.” – Newt Gingrinch “Aging qrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul.” – Douglas…

This mesmerizing timelapse video follows Christoph Rehage as he walks 4,500 km across China over the course of a year…and grows the mop of hair and impressive beard to prove it.  Today is the “first day back” for many of us whose vacations ended with Labor Day weekend, so the video (which I discovered via…

This weekend in the midst of all the chanting at Omega Institute’s Ecstatic Chant Festival, when I wasn’t dancing, I was writing. There’s something about kirtan that makes me scribble–it shakes up so much stuff (fears, joys, doubts, dreams, longings) that it must come out through booty-shaking, tears, words spoken and drawn. Here are a few…

I just got back from Omega Institute’s Ecstatic Chant festival. And OMG. I don’t know where to begin. I’ll be doing a series of posts on it (sorry if chanting isn’t your thing! check out our great archives on Fresh Living if it’s not). But I have that wonderfully juiced, alive feeling that comes from…

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