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This morning, I’m thinking about what reader Gwendolyn wrote in response to the Fresh Morning post about completing tasks every day.  She wrote that each day’s task list should include some “I want to,” and never just “I must, should, or have to.”  This formulation could become a meaningful morning exercise to set an intention…

I just discovered–via Valerie, thanks!–the fabulous Color Me Katie blog, which chronicles the bright, sparkly escapades of a Brooklyn artist whose work is as much performance as it is pretty.  Her most recent post bears sharing–in it, she decides to do an art project in a day.  Here’s what she did: 1.  Gathered beautiful, colorful…

Oh how I love yoga people with a sense of humor. YogaDawg’s blog “My Itchy Third Eye” has a hilarious recent post about a photo of Sarah Palin in Runner’s World magazine, in which she is practicing Tree Pose incorrectly, in a way that is actually really dangerous for the knees. Yoga Dawg proposes a PAC to…

I was just feeling kinda kittylicious…. “When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? – Montaigne “Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.” – Anonymous “Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a…

Tomorrow I leave for vacation! Eep! I love nothing more than being in a beautiful place and nothing less than actually getting there. I would be a major candidate for Harry Potter’s floo powder, or Samantha’s nose-twitch, or just a little space-time-continuum ripping. But if all goes well, tomorrow I will be in a cab,…

You guys, I had something of a bust-size shocker last weekend when I went to buy a dress for my brother-in-law’s upcoming wedding.  At Nordstrom, I found this awesome frock, which was a perfect fit except for a missing, um, pair of breasts.  Let’s just say A and B have always been the names of…

I’m thinking this morning about this quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose.” I love the cleanliness with which Longfellow describes a day.  Open a door on something in the morning, close it in the evening.  Then…

Sigh. Adam Yauch a.k.a. MCA from the Beastie Boys announced yesterday that he has cancer. MCA! So sad. I was practically weaned on their first album, License to Ill. Their scrappy, ironic, funny-white-kids-rapping routine almost made 7th grade bearable. They started as a smart joke and then evolved into truly talented, unmockable mucisians, something no one really…

Fish or cut bait?  Yes or no?  Left or right?  Soup or salad?  Yep, I’m thinking about decisions, how we make them, and how we live peacefully with them after they’re made. With my move looming, I’ve been thinking (and writing) about this a lot.  But I was blown away by the simple wisdom of…

If you grew up in New York City’s tri-state area in the 70s and 80s, you were probably sung to by the lovely Carole and Paula on the TV show “The Magic Garden.” For some reason these wonderful ladies came to mind this morning and I thought I’d share their awesome theme song–a perfect happy-morning treat.…
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