“November comesAnd November goes,With the last red berriesAnd the first white snows. With night coming early,And dawn coming late,And ice in the bucketAnd frost by the gate. The fires burnAnd the kettles sing,And earth sinks to restUntil next spring.” ― Clyde Watson November highlightsPeloton milestones: 150 rides + 50 meditations + 4,000 annual minutes192 miles rode
October highlightssurpassed 3,000 annual Peloton exercise minutescompleted multiple Peloton activity challenges 31 rides + 7 PRscontinue The Power of Awareness training courseread five bookshit milestone weight-loss goalcelebrated Peloton century ride!completed five live Schweloton ridesstarted SF stairway challengecompleted 60+ workoutsenjoyed a socially-distanced visit to the SFMOMAtook part in a virtual Oktoberfest beer tastingspoiled by an amazing experience at Atelier
Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now how comfortable it will be to touch the earth instead of the nothingness of the air and the endless freshets of wind? And don’t you think the trees, especially those with mossy hollows, are beginning to look for the birds that will come—six, a dozen—to sleep inside their
So few grains of happinessmeasured against all the darkand still the scales balance. The world asks of usonly the strength we have and we give it.Then it asks more, and we give it. From “The Weighing” by Jane Hershfield August highlightscompleted 64 workouts (strength, yoga, strength, cycle, hiking, running)exceeded activity goal of 25,000 calories burnedperfect
Even in the middle of a global pandemic, when you’re yearning for the things you cannot do, there are so many opportunities to do. You just have to shift your mindset to “instead.” As I reflect on another month in this strange new normal, I am grateful for the instead. The month, like so many
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience
As I reflect back on May and plan for June and beyond, I find myself dealing with overwhelming feelings of anger, anxiety, and frustration. Life is full of volatility and unrest right now. We are a nation and a world in crisis. We are and have been amid a global pandemic for months and, more
Like many of you, April was marked by the first full month of quarantine. In the Bay Area, our shelter-in-place has been extended through May, so it seems that April may be the first full month of at least two but, with things changing what seems like almost minute-by-minute, we’ll see how the next 30
“Normal is gone. There will be a new normal. We’ll get there. We’ll get through this. But things will change and that’s going to be okay. Maybe better than okay. Maybe we’ll come out better in the end. But we don’t have to be better now, we don’t have to be better overnight. This isn’t
“San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.” ~William Saroyan February is usually a month I dread (although that’s changed a bit since meeting my husband and celebrating his birthday that
