I cannot go to school today
Posted: February 28, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: exercise, family, fitness, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, motivation, natural, passion, perspective, play, Struggle, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 10 Comments… Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry.
I’m going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox.
And there’s one more – that’s seventeen,
And don’t you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut, my eyes are blue,
It might be the instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I’m sure that my left leg is broke.
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button’s caving in.
My back is wrenched, my ankle’s sprained,
My ‘pendix pains each time it rains.
My toes are cold, my toes are numb,
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow’s bent, my spine ain’t straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There’s a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is …
What? What’s that? What’s that you say?
You say today is ………….. Saturday?
G’bye, I’m going out to play!”
Notes:
Play, Is it really that hard?
Artificial Life
Posted: February 27, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, fitness, free range, happiness, health, hipster, jogging, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, natural, pain, paleo, passion, perspective, pilates, Risk, running, Suffering, trail running, walking, weight loss, whole foods, WOD, yoga, Yoga Goddess 11 CommentsThat’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…”-
Life, each and every day is a risky undertaking. Each of us have our own choices to make each day, minute-to-minute, conveniently wrapped with the many mysteries of life. The weight loss plan we planned out over a nice Merlot in January may help us reach a goal we value and then again, it very well may not.
What exactly makes sense as we negotiate this perilous journey of life?
The balance between too much risk and too much safety is an altogether different equation for different folks. There is no right answer.
The rule book for our life is written well before we are born and we are taught those rules from the day of our birth. The rules are full of do this and don’t do that and awful consequences (you’ll shoot your eye out kid) and great rewards (a cheap medal for finishing a 5k). No two of you reading today share the same rule book as mine, not even remotely close. This is one of the main reasons why we sometimes become so hostile, so polarized, unwavering in our thoughts when facing off against an opponent who feels equally so. Don’t believe me? Tell the yoga goddess in your 9am class that her breathing and focus, suck. She’s following the rules for herself (matching Lululemon pants with a revealing top).
Living deeply is looking closely at your rule book and deciding, for ourselves, what our true nature is. What exactly is your true nature and how can you live authentically? The answers don’t come as easy as say a one-time blog post or a witty self-help e-book. They come as feelings of intuition and as a sense of purpose, guiding us one way or another. The answers we seek will come as clarity, focus, a genuine sense of purpose. Sometimes the answers are crystal clear, sometimes they are barely discernible nudges; a fleeting thought or feeling; a sweetness on your lips; a resonance in your heart … Do you hear these today?
The Workout-
A simple Walk sprinkled with some Inversions to make life interesting.
Notes:
Step outside the familiar this afternoon, the comfortable, the place where you think you are safe, take a risk (wear jammies to yoga class). Take a risk against the old you … This is a risk worth taking.
Minimal
Posted: February 25, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, exercise, fitness, free range, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, Minimal, motivation, natural, passion, pilates, running, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD, writing, yoga 10 CommentsThe real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love-
Minimalism is not about having just a handful of items to help you make it through the day. Minimalism is about having only what you need, and nothing more. Maybe it’s my blonde hair or maybe it’s my unabashed “dude” attitude towards life? Maybe it’s the handful of Yoga/Spiritual magazines in the corner bookstore that lament, nauseatingly about “How to simplify” your life that brought me to write today?
If you really want to start simplifying your life?
Gather up everything you use on a daily basis and proceed to stack these items somewhere (a box would be ideal although some items may be too large for a simple box). Every time you need something from this “box”, pick it out and find a place for it in your life. A simple toothbrush comes to mind, the bikes to ride around with the kids this coming spring. The TV, iPad, magazines and even this blog-o-post can stay in the box.
After a fair amount of time you will start to take notice of a few things: Your teeth are whiter, your breath is fresher. Listening to all four acts of Carmen by the brilliant french composer Georges Bizet (The only likable French dude the world has known) is infinitely more enjoyable than surfing the webz and watching wretched television programming. Your posture improves as you start to walk with your head held high, with confidence and purpose. A far cry from wandering around aimlessly with your head buried in a gadget.
Take note, I’m not trying to make you a minimalist, for I am far from it. Purging the useless items from our daily lives may very well take the rest of our lives to accomplish. The box … Will always be there to take items from and to place back.
The Workout-
A pleasurable mid-morning Walk followed by a handful of Walking Lunges and just for the fun of it: Cartwheels to reconnect with our inner child, gracefully.
Notes:
CultFit.org in its present state? Is a mess and has been placed back in my “box“. The more you try to simplify “things” the more complicated they become. I suppose the very same logic applies to most of what we do on a daily basis?
Never Give
Posted: February 14, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, exercise, fitness, free range, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, hope, intensity, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, madness, marathon, motivation, natural, paleo, passion, pilates, recovery, running, trail running, Valentine's Day, Walk, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 8 Comments… all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O Never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.
W.B. Yeats In the Seven Woods
Notes:
Be well today.
The Sweetest Thing
Posted: February 13, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, compassion, crossfit, Earth, exercise, fitness, Forgiveness, happiness, health, hipster, hope, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, natural, nature, paleo, pilates, Promises, recovery, running, trail running, Understanding, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 10 CommentsEarth’s crammed with heaven…But only he who sees, takes off his shoes-
I vow to develop UNDERSTANDING in order to live peacefully with people, animals, plants, and minerals.
I vow to develop my COMPASSION in order to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals.
The Workout-
Shoes off at the door please, let’s carry on with a nice CultFit Flow (if you would like to know what this is? just ask …)
Notes:
Self-awareness and compassion are amazing skills to help guide you. Allow these feelings to nurture accepting love in your heart. It’s love, yes Love, that will help you to heal and change your outlook on Life.
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