Fire

Today is the second in two horrible fires that have been devastating our area. Both human caused. I'm so sick to death of people being idiots in our fire prone valleys of sagebrush and pine trees. Quit throwing your cigarettes out the windows, take the matches away from your brats, be careful of your machinery and reel in and lock up your teenagers and their illegal campfires and firecrackers. If you don't like it then move back to California where you came from.

Yoga

Twice a week I co-run a lunchtime yoga session with some co-workers. We stake out an empty office or meeting room, steal a TV/VCR and do yoga to several tapes. My favorite are the Yoga Zone tapes with Allen Finger and the Inhale series that I tape from Oxygen with Jeff Ross. Well...rather...we call that one In-hell. It can kick our booties.

I adore yoga and my strength, peace of mind and flexibility have improved big time since starting about 2 years ago. Unexplained and brutal back pains that I used to suffer have disappeared. My muscles are more defined and I have a lot less road rage.

I think my next step now is to go deeper in my yoga practice...beyond the physical part of it and learn more about the history and mental aspects of this now mainstream practice. I found a yoga retreat center on Salt Spring Island in Canada that I would love to live at and learn to be an instructor.

Salt Spring Center of Yoga