Full power. 2014.

Is it finally a Princess Sparklepony mat towel kinda day? Haven't busted it out yet, but it's getting close to time.

Like a snake eating his own tail.

Reading my journal from 2005. Holy cow. Maybe that yoga did some good after all.

Overheard in the men's changing room before led intermediate: "It looks like the line for the bathroom at a gay bar."

"I’ll try doing the same thing again—purely out of curiosity. I just want to know what will happen if I do the same thing in the same place wearing the same outfit. I’m not hoping this will save me. I’m not especially afraid to die. If it comes to that, I’ll do it without hesitation. I can die smiling. But Aomame did not want to die ignorant, failing to grasp how things worked. I want to push myself to my limits, and if things don’t work out, then I can give up. But I will do everything I can until the bitter end. That is how I live." --1Q84, Haruki Murikami

This. This x100. I just hope the end is not bitter.

Woke up on Boxing Day for practice and talked to Michael Roike & Michelle. Thank goodness it's still Xmas in the States, as I'm still full from Lunch!

Value the present moment when confronted with presents in a moment. "May leaders lead with wisdom, may all nations be prosperous, and may all creatures everywhere be happy and free. Peace."

No more cookies 'till Christmas.

I love FaceTime, snapchat, and cookies.

Missing debrief and over analysis time with old friends on this Saturday morning.

Make your sweat smell like maple syrup. http://examine.com/supplements/Fenugreek/

Off to led primary, and missing my students at home. Love love love.

Wrestling with the "I Maker," ahamkara.

“Hey, Tengo, do you know the difference between the English words ‘lunatic’ and ‘insane’?” she asked. “They’re both adjectives describing mental abnormality. I’m not quite sure how they differ.” “ ‘Insane’ probably means to have an innate mental problem, something that calls for professional treatment, while ‘lunatic’ means to have your sanity temporarily seized by the luna, which is ‘moon’ in Latin. In nineteenth-century England, if you were a certified lunatic and you committed a crime, the severity of the crime would be reduced a notch. The idea was that the crime was not so much the responsibility of the person himself as that he was led astray by the moonlight. Believe it or not, laws like that actually existed. In other words, the fact that the moon can drive people crazy was actually recognized in law.

-- 1Q84, Haruki Murakami

Managed to nip a nipple and give myself tracks whilst trimming chest hair. #moondaymadness

For me, chanting is harder and scarier than asana. Went to Dr. Jayashree's for chanting and philosophy, hoping to make Karuna proud.

Let go. Dance. Don't hold the wall.

Upon review, I love an autoantonym. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-contradicting_words_in_English

*wondering when we should talk about 2014 & DC Ashtanga's new pricing & beginners programming 🙂

off to stretch for god.

Did my physical therapy routine as prescribed by Dr. Akash. Surprisingly intense.

confession: I start every morning by reading uk music blog Popjustice's forum.
3 artists I've never seen live, but am dying to: Roison Murphy, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Britney Spears.
Honorable Mention: Cher

Physical therapist was just shy of unbearable. Dr Akash found all the spots & gave me homework. Can't wait get to work!

The problem with feelings, of course, is that you have to feel them.

A quick aside from conference yesterday: Sharath took a nap in his car at his cousin's wedding. He is my teacher #teamcarnap

This year april had a blizzard
Just to show she did not care
And the new dead leaves
They made the trees look like children with gray hair
But I'll push myself up through the dirt
And shake my petals free
I'm resolved to being born
And so resigned to bravery

Yeah the one who leaves this also grieves this
Too much rain on a prairie flood plain
Houses floating, love is like that
We built on a river

-- Dar Williams, Spring Street

Crystal Y. Jolley-- I wanna tell the story of the natural mystic who told us my future, but its so creepy and unbelievable I need someone to back me up. I need someone who was there!