hi, how are you?

i've been doing some amount or type of yoga every day and i feel richly rewarded by it. i feel limber and stronger. i can do a headstand!
i like this website: Yoga Journal/, especially the "POSES" section where you can sort poses in different ways and build sequences of them. i find it helpful to learn a batches of poses at a time and work on them until they are very comfortable, then go build a new sequence (on the site, or in your notebook, or brain).
of course paul is helpful with this, he is pretty much a natural born yogi, somehow.

let's see what else...
i blogged a blog on our farm site here.

i've been reconnecting with some people from my past (through email). i think i am going to keep that up, it's a better way to use the internet than reading about peak oil apocalypse i think.

two thousand and eleven

looking back at my '10 blog post, my resolutions involved:
1. knitting 2. being connected with people 3. learning/reading/evolving 4. writing letters to politicians

well. thanks to a crash course from caylie over the holidays i can say that i know how to knit. finally! i haven't made anything yet, but it's only a matter of time.

being "connected" is still a struggle. i quit facebook and i think that was a good decision but i have to compensate somehow. my situation has changed though; living in this community i would have to go out of my way to be isolated. i'm definitely learning about people and relationships. either way, i want to write more letters and emails. and maybe more phone calls.

always with the learning and reading and getting better, of course. perpetual resolution.

writing letters to politicians. frankly, i never did this and i am not interested in this anymore.


SO, new new new resolutions.

i want to evolve my own practice of physical and mental discipline and get a solid routine of stretching. (i'm skirting the word yoga because caylie hates it. although i'm sure she just hates the lululemon overly righteous carrying around a cup of starbucks in your ugg boots and talking about yoga all the time thing. which i also do hate but i'm just talking about intentional stretching.)

i'd like to become less of a culinary spazz. not hoping to be a chef, just able to cook up something to eat without crying. i don't know why i find cooking for a few people to be so stressful, but at this point it's too much to endure.