I know, I know, it’s easy to expect the worst

I am kind of a jerk that way I realize. If you aren't my friend on Facebook, you might not know I am actually alive. Nothing has happened, nor do I expect it to-though this is really not a way I am used to thinking about things. Living in NY almost killed me, as much as it lifted me up and shaped me. There you learn a certain kind of tolerance and patience for people with their diversity and different ideas, but you don't have time to wait for people slowing you down.

Here in Denver it's a little different, primarily because my days in NY were a lot more stimulating in terms of what I was doing, how many people I was talking to, and my line of vision was always filled with thousands of people passing through the trains and streets of NY with me, the students piling out of Columbia in sparse groups of two of three, and running down subway stairs to sit on the train for 45 minutes until I got home. Every day I woke up the same, I would wake and bake with K, run off to school or work, depending on the day. ...

The Mind Body Connection

What is your body, was the question. So I wrote this: Torturer, my body is not kind or agreeable and has played the role of torturer and dream killer.

You hear people say this all of the time and it's a concept I have been struggling with for quite a while now. Clearly the mind is housed inside the body, but for people like me, and for people like my friend Francis, the mind has not always directed the path that the body has followed.

This is very anti-yogic, from what I have seen. I have been sitting through these classes for a few months now, confused by the term because of this fact. It seems that people who are healthy cannot seem to wrap their brains around the idea that sometimes the body will fail despite whatever care and concern and focus your mind might be able to manifest through your mind. Included in this is the idea that there is someone essentially at fault for what happens to you, and that person is none other than you, since you are your mind and your mind is you. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of a shortcut and probably not worded so efficiently, ...