Cartwheeling through Life: February 2014

Well March, ready or not, here we come

And that's the point!

Cliftons ROCK!!

"Dealing with Adrenial Fatigue"

Elephant Journal article on adrenal fatigue. illustrations and articles helpful.

Fruition is coming...

Go inside yourself first for love, and then receive and accept love from others ~ SARK

Hour of Power!!

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Incantations

Joy!

Ken Law rocks too!!

Lickety split

Magnanamous : having or showing a generous and kind nature; courageous spirit

Namaste'

Obtuse: stupid or unintelligent : not able to think clearly or to understand what is obvious or simple

Part 1. The four agreements toltec prayer. YOGA

Quiet time of peace and prayer in the early am

Redemption : forgiving yourself for things that you've done"

Shawshank Redemption aka "homework" with my girl

This is "The Point" Stonington Borough, Connecticut Photo by Angela Gora 2/25/14

"Undulatus Asperatus" clouds are NOT in the scene above. Translated, it means "roughened waves".

Vitality and Verve : the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance

"What Souls Desire Arrives." ~Rumi

Zihuatanejo, Mexico

End of February Images - 2014

Augment each other

"Balance"

by Ed Adam

Catching up on

"Daffodil Street!" ~ we still shout it at the first sighting each year 2/24/14

Equal measure

Focus
Go to Give not to Get
Has Kindness Touched Your Day?"

http://www.taoofspiritualpartnership.com/2013/08/has-kindness-touched-your-day.html

"I am I Said" by Neil Diamond
"Joost, for whom kindness is an instinct" ~ The Way

Kōan : question, or statement, which is used in Zen-practice to provoke the "great doubt", and test a student's progress in Zen practice.

"Live with passion!" ~ Tony Robbins
Mel Robbins : Autopilot or Emergency break?
Negative emotions magnify Negative emotions
Over reacting is no longer necessary

Posted on Facebook by The Yellow House: "The Point"

Quiet surprising

Really

"Sunny Side Up"

Valerie on Instagram

Tiny Tweaks; big changes: Physiology Change Science Proves it works!!

"Utmost importance: you must move at the pace of the Queen in perfect timing with God." ~ M Natifa Griffith

Victoria's 31st Birthday

"Why ask the question when the decision has been made?" ~ Downton Abby

eXciting and juicy ~ Tony Robbins

"You slay me" ~ I don't know where it came from but I heard it first from Chris Teator :)

"Zeta, impoundment #99058" check out the great photo by Shannon Johnstone

Get the Edge - Sunday, February 23, 2014

Authentic Archaeological Adventure Ahead via Activation energy

Begin here NOW... "Because light is what darkness most fears"

Comfort and Consistency via Create and environment with Cup of tea

Drink it in

Enjoy... Elizabeth showed me this lovely view of a BUNNYdance :)

Focus on what you are really Feeling - FINE?

Give up the story and Go for the results

Hour of Power to Get the Edge

Intense Inspiration

Juicy Joy

Live with passion... Leverage it

Massive action plan creates Momentum. Make it REAL

No more! Never again!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk5MNnp9QLk

Outrageously burn the bridges

Purpose of my life requires Peak state

Quiet pulse of something familiar...

Ritual Requires Repetition Rest harder

System of Sounds and Smells

Transformation Tasks

Understanding

Vitality

Whatever is right for you is What you should do

eXtraordinary results

Zest and the Zig Zig

Sunday, February 16, 2014

"Comparison is the thief of Joy" ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Drishti : focus spot

Elizabeth needs to "catch up" on school work

Flying yogini is Fun!

Giggling is Good

Hip-py, hip-ster, hip-hop, hip opening bliss!

"I love you" says Elizabeth while giggling at her computer

"Join us for Align and shine yoga at 10:15-11:45am at CDV. All levels, welcome!" ~ MNG

Kinda like this song about Stonington, thanks for sharing Valerie

"Listen to the whispers of destiny" ~ Tony Robbins

Monsanto :(

Nature

Open to receiving

Purpose creates the drive

Quest for peace continues

Remember my purpose

Today we're all gonna get hip!!!!
Urgency is the result of previous choices, made or not made - which is also a choice
Victoria posted a LOVEly picture on Instagram and Facebook

Wow! chills
eXpand the dimension that will make my life better

"Yoga is Yummy" ~ Meghan Facebook status first thing this am
"Zone of fulfillment" - spending time on things that are truly important to ME!

February 14th Valentine Gratitude for...

Art

by Pamela Zagarenski

"Birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her...

Community..." p. 12

"Do something that makes you happy, and then find the person who gets their greatest joy from seeing you that way". found in an old journal, from an episode of Las Vegas

Elizabeth got herself psyched up and ready and hand delivered her resume to Rocket Fizz

February 7th opening was delayed by first one snow storm and then another

"How would I be able to reconcile myself to it?" p. 15

"If I fully awake to the truth, then what would I do?" p. 15

joy and abundance are within reach

Kripalu programs offer tools to tap into your wisdom and insight, and invite vibrant well-being into all aspects of your life.

Mutual inductance

"No place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming." p. 12 ~ Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd

Outback for dinner for a treat

Polarity and Playfulness = Passion

Radiance

"The truth may set you free, but first it will shatter the safe, sweet way you live." p. 15

Unleash your passion, deepen your love

Valentine's Day gifts from Tony and Sage

Wordless place Where all things meet

eXploring the yoga of life

Zagarenski art and Zen tea are a great combination

February 15, 2014 Happy 22nd Birthday to Michelle Nicole Law

Amanda and Michelle at the celebration of my 50th

Birthday - Michelle's 22nd is today!!

Chris and Michelle Celebrating life!!

Daddy girl too

Enjoy the process

Family

Gram and Michelle

Having a quality moment

I started building this post yesterday, and decided to change it up for Michelle

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Law Love

Michelle

Nicole Law

On this day, in 1992, born :)

Psychology major

Qualitative: the measure of how good something is

Roadtrippers.com

"Set your intentions / dream with care"

Summer Pops with Gram, a few years ago ;)

Truth Tellers

Use my brain in the way that works best

Valentine's Day love letter worth checking out.
"Where there is great love there are always miracles." ~ Willa Cather

Yoga with the fam

Happy 13th - Snow day - Thursday, Feb 13, 2014

Brisk Brain walking

Commit to Condition body and mind to work together

Do something each day that makes me proud of myself

Each and Every morning, Energetic Exercise

Focus

God, Gratitude

Hour of power

Invigorating sense of challenge

Joy, love gratitude

Know what I need to do

Massive action plan

Nature

"On Our Walk" Feb 13, 2014

Power of Pain, Physiology, Priorities

Quantifiable : to determine, indicate, or express the amount.

RPM Plan (Result? Purpose? MAP : Massive Action Plan)

Snow Moon info via Sarah Addison Allen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQa_FN3vP0I

Unexpected blessings - thank you Carrie

Visceral Valentines

Wake up and move: "When we live our lives to the fullest, we're going to make the little things in life Wonderful and good and important." ~ Louise Hay

eXpressive eXpectations of Self

Zest for life!

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Abandon All ....

Cease listening to the cacophony of my own thoughts

Deep inner shift in reality

"Embrace the possibility of what's to come." ~ Antoinette

Go within

It's time to MOVE forward.

Jackie

Keep Ken in your prayers

"Live out of your imagination, not your history." ~ Stephen Covey

Move forward

Now

Obedient to Spirit ~ Antoinette Dickson

Powerful inner lesson

"Quiet the Constant Cacophony" was the title of a paper I wrote for Nan Miller's American Lit. class Fall 2003

"Really? Really. Really." ~ Shrek

Self-knowledge must come first

"The time has come to walk away from the certainty and finality of what was." ~ Antoinette

Uncertainty

Very often proceeds change

Whatever I need, I can budget for??

"You've done everything you can possibly do with the past, except let it go." ~ Antoinette

Zig Ziglar ~ "Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you."

Monday, February 10, 2014

"Always, always, we are waking up, and then waking up some more." ~ Sue Monk Kidd

Birds need two wings: wisdom and compassion

Dorothy Parker ~ “I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”

Effortlessness

Going all in, Gracefully and Gratefully

Henry David Thoreau: "Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be."

"Interesting..." ~ Ken Law during yoga

"Juicy..." ~ Meghan Griffith during yoga

Konigsburg's brithday. author of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

"Ladies in a tree" by Sue Gager Palmer

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Move

Now

Paracosm: a detailed, prolonged imaginary world created by a child that includes human, animal or alien creations.

Ready, set, let go

Secret Sauce of crow pose

Time to

Unleash the

Verve

"Writing comes from something that happens in my head and to my heart." ~ E. L Konigsburg
"eXpect miracles" ~ Robert J. Law (my baby brother)
"Yoga happens in the present. So you have to focus on the sensations that give rise to the pose, rather than on achieving the pose itself." ~ Lauren Zinn Buck

zen koan

A kōan; Chinese: 公案; pinyin: gōng'àn; Korean: 공안; Vietnamese: công án is a story, dialogue, question, or statement, which is used in Zen-practice to provoke the "great doubt", and test a student's progress in Zen practice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Kōan

Sunday Feb 9, 2014 - part 2

Adho Mukha Vrksasana (handstand)

Blend of Buddhism and psychology : Tara Brach

Class today - Cavalo "horse" in Portuguese

Down Dog is indeed a resting pose on days like this :)

Elizabeth's resume is good to go

Fire Fly pose -not quite there yet, but I am...

Getting closer!

Humphrey's Facebook movie is my very favorite

I did not know this was a word. thanks a lot Sue!

Jefe: a boss or leader; a person in charge of something

Kathryn and I grabbed a seat and a beverage at the new place next to Cirque de vol Studios

Loving hands stands - soon this will be me - for now, a picture from Elephant Journal...

Meghan's stories are her not so subtle way to help us hold poses longer :)

Next, a brisk walk with my puppy

Puppy time!!!!

Quiche from what was in the fridge

Realia (noun) : objects used by a teacher to illustrate everyday living. things that are real.

Starting taxes now, what fun!

"Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Uttanasana : standing forward fold - yes, I did also use this word in part 1 :)

Valerie Randall strikes again. This is fabulous!!

"Walk this Way"

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eXcellent way way for me to close now and Yield to the Zen feeling this image helps to create.

Sunday am ... there may be 2 posts for Feb 9, 2014

“As you think, so you become... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~ Epictetus

"Branching out"

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Cut the Caffeine? really??
Do I have to? really?
Eat
Foods that are
Good for me
High in potassium for proper functioning of nerves and muscle cells
"If flowers can grow through blankets of melting snow, there is hope for me." by Tyler Knott Gregson

"Just sit" ~ EKM
Ken and I just tied in our game of WordsWithFriends :)
"LOST (albeit in a good book)... in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….

Mysterious paper sculptures"

“No infant has the power of deciding….. by what circumstances (they) shall be surrounded.. Robert Owen

"Obscurity : the bigger it is, the less you see it" ~ Life is Beautiful

Part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we're from the same star.” - Emery Allen.

Quiet Saturday night with my girl and our pets

Resting

Snarky

Tony Stark

Uttanasana time....

Mornings with Mary Oliver - February 8, 2014

"Bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Concern for the natural world

"Drenched in enthusiasm"

Enter into the moment with out that clutter

"Full self attendance"
Gratitude Habit

Hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground

“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.” ― Rumi

Just stop and BE

Kneel and Kiss the ground

Listening...

Momentum

"Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished." ~ Lao Tzu TaoTe Ching

"Open to the flow of the divine..."

Prayer, Poems and the Page - Power of Purpose
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.” ~ Stephen Hawking
Rumi wisdom

Thinking and feeling in words. "The door we are knocking on, opens from the inside"

"Unforgettable That's what you are, Unforgettable Tho' near or far. Like a song of love that clings to me, How the thought of you does things to me." ~ Nat King Cole

Victoria is fighting a great fight and has been moved to Boston for rehab. yay!