“Take on Me” has got to be the quintessential 80s pop song. I just ran across this very…literal…interpretation of A-ha!’s wildly popular (at the time) (at least among my friends) (hey, I was twelve!) music video. Remember when music videos were all still new and amazing? If you do, you will probably think this is [...]
I have mentioned before our love of the free, open source drawing program for kids, Tux Paint. Lately, Paul and Sophie invented a new game to play using Tux Paint: Supermaze!
But first, to give the non-initiated a quick tour of Tux Paint, here are some pictures, made by Luc, [...]
Sophie has been drawing lots and lots of people, oodles of them every day. It’s getting crowded in the yurt!
Kids and computers are an incredible combination. I remember the old Commodore 64 I had when I was a kid–I was just fascinated by it, and used to type in these pages and pages of number code to get some clunky, worthless game, and I just adored it. Remember those commercials with Bach Invention No. [...]
I just love this quote:
What I find interesting is how many people think the only reason to write is to be published, and that publication legitimizes ones efforts somehow. Is there any other endeavor that carries such a load of assumptions?
Most of the people who run marathons know they aren’t going to come [...]
When I was in my twenties, I had this whole thing about ‘life is short, repeat nothing.’ I felt like there was so much to experience, and so little time. Watching a rerun, or re-reading a book, that was the same as flushing that time down the potty. And since I have always had a [...]
This is about the scariest thing I’ve seen in a while, a way of making the incredibly large numbers of our wasteful society more understandable. Art has the ability to get through to me in a way facts and sound bites can’t. I think I’ve built up an immunity to the news. [...]
My aunt Carroll Lassiter is a wonderful painter. She has been working lately on local landscapes that make the usual intersections and fields look new and beautiful–which then make me see those old familiar places in a new way. In the past she has done series of carpentry tools, gardening tools, fishing tools (like oars [...]
Saturday we went to the Haw River Festival, an event set up to raise funds for the Haw River Assembly, which is trying to take care of the river and keep it clean. The whole experience was a great example of when to let go and surrender. For example, walking across the [...]
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today's yoga practice
- friday
May 11, 2012 | 10:09 am…and now we come to lady’s holiday. the weakest week of yoga that ever barely happened.
- thursday
May 11, 2012 | 9:09 amprimary to navasana. can’t seem to get past freaking navasana this week. at least I’m on the mat.
- wednesday
May 11, 2012 | 9:08 amprimary to navasana with Maria’s vid.
- tuesday
May 11, 2012 | 9:08 amSKIP. Shame.
- monday
May 11, 2012 | 9:07 amprimary to navasana. am I back in the saddle?
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Archive for today's yoga practice »
- friday
upcoming book releases
a few greatest hits
- happy birthday, sophie!
- remains of the play
- flying kids
- how to build a yurt (1 of 10)
- spike and buffy got screwed--now with proof! (part 1)
- the emotional insanity of writing
- the solstice from inside a sundial
- 2 stories, 1 joke, and a song
- bad things come in threes. or fours. (or maybe fives?)
- recycling other people's junk
- the yip-yips do not cause childhood obesity
- butterfly house
- go, go, godzilla!
- the incredible hulk invades the yurt
- diggers watch tv, too
- the power of mom’s day can melt even the most bitter of hearts, not that my heart is bitter, but it has gotten a bit crusty around the edges
- lucille ball moment
- screen time for fun and profit
- welcome to mayaland's virtual macabre crawfish feast of death!
- cool felt picture fun for kiddos
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