“I’d learned what the word ‘happy’ meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good.” ― Henry Shukman, One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir May highlights volunteer day with the hubs – completed three Kynd
“This big ol’ world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.” ― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half April highlights purchased new URL to kick start my blog refresh started coaching sessions – two completed34 rides = ~11 hours, 202.7 miles, 1 PRfirst haircut since 2019fun + educational
“The main thing is this, when you get up in the morning, you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.” ~ Grace Paley February highlights celebrated hubby’s 40th birthdayvirtual wine tasting with husband + extended familyenjoy vacation day + extended holiday weekendstarted fostering pupcompleted 81 workouts + more
“But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go of the limiting stories you’ve told yourself about who you are so that you aren’t trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you’ve been telling yourself about your life.” ― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone:
“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
