all pics by Joy Kilpatrick…GREAT JOB, AMMAJI!!!… Team Ilg! oh man, what it takes to get both yourself AND your kid to the Start Line!? phew! reckon that’ll be my warmup again! — at Durango Nordic Track. Well, Yesterday’s race day certainly was wholistic! chaotic, hard, sacred, tricky, and somewhat embarrassing! Finished 6th OA, […]
pic by Sandra Lee; Daddy and Dewa downtown Telluride, engaged in the following Dharma Talk after slayin’ it on the world-class slopes of T-ride on Saturday… “Daddy?” “Yah Baby Girl?” “Do you know what my hobby is?” {breath-filled pause by me…} “Uhmmm, hmmm, that’s a tough one…I reckon you got lots of hobbies…” “Nope. Just […]
Just hand delivered a sparkle lavender Rose to Dewa while she was in school…she blushed…she fought back tears of surprised joy…we hugged and kissed in front of her classmates..the Outer World suspended as we clung two-gether as we have for countless lifetimes…Happy Valentines, My Precious Daughter! I ❤️ you!!! And Blessed Be YOUR Valentines […]
More like, ‘White Friday’ around ilgsville…dat’s da way we like it! so D and i created this powder trail through the trees which got more and more skier traffic throughout the day…that was meaning-full for her..trailblazing-wise…D named our Forest Path trail: “Black Stallion”…OMG, we had SUCH a great time!!! love the kid that chose to […]
This M(om)ent… Bittersweet, surreal emotions swirled as Dewa rode chairlifts for the first time with a friend instead of Daddy…what’s next? My car keys?! Om Ami Dewa Hrii.. Letting Go ain’t easy… Noble Sangha, i took the above pic today…that’s Dewa (9) on the left with her friend Isabella up at Purg. This M(om)ent touched […]
reprinted from The Durango Telegraph Kicking around idea of eco-turf Dear City Council of Durango, As a Durango native, yoga teacher to city employees, multi-sport athlete and single father of a very Durangatangish 9-year-old daughter for whom I did everything it took to move my family back to my hometown in order to raise her […]
The accomplished yogic Masters were keen about conserving vital energy or Prana. One of the largest ‘leaks’ of our Life Force according to the Enlightened Ones? Idle conversation and thinking. Excessive talking or (these days) time on silly social media wastes Prana. Our words and actions should be exact, purposeful, and kind. Using sport performance, […]
the feel of silence the sound of silence a soliloquy for ‘us’ parents is more like a penance for our kids still, we must plant the seeds of stillness… unattached to resultant outc(om)es of our intended desires of their unmitigated Soul Journey hopefully Ever Higher the feel of silence ilg knows all too much how […]
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