Well March, ready or not, here we come

And that's the point!
Cliftons ROCK!!
"Dealing with Adrenial Fatigue"
Fruition is coming...
Go inside yourself first for love, and then receive and accept love from others ~ SARK
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=637324602972153&set=a.121250987912853.9422.100000838586428&type=1&theater&notif_t=like
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
"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 :)

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
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
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

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
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
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
http://blog.roadtrippers.com/floating-hot-tub-heated-wood-stove-can-drive-like-boat/
"Set your intentions / dream with care"
Summer Pops with Gram, a few years ago ;)
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

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200828665033940&set=a.1016256581684.1518.1683191433&type=1&theater
Move
Now
On
Paracosm: a detailed, prolonged imaginary world created by a child that includes human, animal or alien creations.


Ready, set, let go
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
  1. 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)
Class today - Cavalo "horse" in Portuguese
Down Dog is indeed a resting pose on days like this :)
Elizabeth's resume is good to go
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

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 :)
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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

"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…. 
http://thisiscentralstation.com/featured-blog/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!
eXtraordinary quality of life
"Yes, yes, I like the mornings" ~ Mary Oliver
Zest and flair

Week in Review Feb 3-7, 2014

Attualment - fabulous blog by Mandy Smith
Buddha : “When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.”
Change the pattern of what you focus on daily - Change the pattern of how you feel
"Date with Destiny" - Life Mastery with Tony Robbins

Focus = Feelings ~ Tony Robbins
God's challenging me. It's time to go to the next level
Hour of Power at least 5 days a week
Incantations: phrases that you say with such emotional intensity that you believe them.
Juicy Joy of our lives

LOVE

Notice the habit of the words and the emotions they create
One word can change the way you feel
Possibilities are everywhere
Questions direct us - Questions are a form of language
Reality to the individual is not necessarily actuality

Thirty minutes to Thrive
Unlimited potential
Vibrant Vitality
We feel Whatever We tell ourselves
fleXibility
Zen mind in Buddhism is the beginner's mind