“How blessed I was to find you.  Who so effortlessly showed me who I was and made me see through the lies I’d been told and began to believe myself.  Thank you.”
Wow.

We think we’re made a mistake because that’s not what we meant to do.    But if we’re always in the midst of God’s will, we are always doing what He has for us to do. And if we’re in the midst of God’s will, how can we not rejoice?

A heads up! If you try a little harder to understand those family members that do not fit perfectly into your mold, they won’t be telling an almost complete stranger that they are the only ones they feel understood by.

Ok, very funny but point taken.
Christianity:  The belief that some cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.  Makes perfect sense.

I woke up with magazine work on my mind, thinking I had no time to work out. I had to run out to the bank and post office so I put my gym gear on anyway.  I’m glad I did because it psyched me up for an hour at Planet Fitness.  I’m figuring out where all the machines are, what muscle groups they work and how much weight I can handle on each.  It’s like a biology lesson and physics lesson all in one.  The human body is an amazing creation and I’m so stoked I get to have one this lifetime.

Glad I dressed for the gym because it got me there
The home fitness room expands
I’m lighter, healthier and more fit at the end of the year than when it began
Working out as soon as I wake up works best for me
I join Planet Fitness the day before Thanksgiving
Hereinafter “Ab Day” will be Core Strengthening Day instead

I’ve always been a note taker and journal writer. I just came across several notebooks of writings from lectures I’d attended in the 80’s. Good stuff I wanted to recall forever. But the notes are half written using a shorthand that I don’t recognize anymore. Isn’t it funny how I foil myself by not thinking things though? If information is to be helpful to me, I have to not only take it in, but be able to understand it well enough to spit it back out without relying on notes that may or may not be there in the future to guide my way.

Not a gift you expect from your sister

My friend Domino likes to multitask.  So do I.  We all do.  But the key to doing it successfully is keeping yourself focused and conscious of what you’re doing.  Domino calls herself a scatterbrain, and in fact that’s what we’ve been working on together.  I always tell her, “don’t worry, when it is time for you to get that lesson, you will get that lesson.”  She called me frantically this morning.  She’d just made an online order for vitamins and and a variety of sex toys for her new beau and accidently chose her brother’s shipping address, since she ships him vitamins.  Now she’s frantic.  The good news?  Now she has incentive to be a little more mindful, which will improve her multitasking skills.

I dreamed last night I was in an argument with a faceless someone who was mad I wouldn’t print their article and pulled their ad because of it.  I’ve never had anything like that happen, it was just a quick vignette in a dream.   Today an advertiser called to downsize her ad and let me know a popular publication used an article of hers that I had previously rejected for word count.  No argument, tho, yay!  Life is such a hoot.  I’m not worried, my client mantra is – for every one I lose, a dozen more will come.

A note on word count:  Mark Twain told a publisher asking for a 300 word essay in 3 days, “In 3 days I can give you a 3000 word essay…to produce 300 words, I shall need 30 days!”

Ma Yoga Shakti

Gita Jayanti

There will be a Geeta Jayanti Celebration with Ma Yoga Shakti  Tuesday Dec 6th from 6.45 – 7.30 pm.    It is a special day to celebrate the Bhagavad Geeta.  Love donation.  On time is 15 minutes early. If you come at 6:30pm you will see them perform aarti in the temple.

All are welcome to attend.  Yoga Shakti Mission is located at 3895 Hield Rd NW in Palm Bay, FL 32907, phone 321-725 4024  www.yogashakti.org

Come bask in the presence of this holy teacher, whom we are blessed to have among us in the flesh. Mataji is one of 5 living female hindu saints documented in Daughters of the Goddess, The Women Saints of India authored by Linda Johnsen. (See page 32 at this link for an excerpt of India’s Female Yogis)

Bicep curl

I woke up thinking today is too busy of a Monday, I am in the final days of final layout for the January Horizons Magazine, so  I’ll skip the gym or go later. I know what that means. I got dressed and drove over there and did 20 minutes at 2.8 mph and 2.0 incline on the treadmill (yes, I’m a lightweight) while I woke up and decided if I wanted to work out. Heck, I’m here, I may as well. I worked my back and biceps. My back is good, must be the years of yoga.  My biceps are barking, they are glad to get this. Me, too.  I’m glad Planet Fitness is just 2 miles away.  I know I can be there and back before I can finish arguing with myself whether to go or not.  I’ve done that too often with too many previous gyms throughout my life.  Just a week in, I already have more energy and better sleep.  I can feel which muscles are being worked and that makes me excited about what they’ll be like 5 weeks from now, in their new incarnation, stronger and better.

Glad I dressed for the gym because it got me there
The home fitness room expands
I’m lighter, healthier and more fit at the end of the year than when it began
Working out as soon as I wake up works best for me
I join Planet Fitness the day before Thanksgiving
Hereinafter “Ab Day” will be Core Strengthening Day instead