this ain’t the World Championships any longer… (the Olympics are the same as the World Championships…just every Four Years they are ‘called’ the Olympics). it’s a friggin’ freak show of insipid, interlaced control by China’s ‘government’… i saw footage of the Women’s Marathon…so sterile…the ‘observers’ (formerly known as ‘fans’) were kept at Prisoner Type distance […]
i had found my Prayer Wheel; and it was my own flying feet… – an injured coach ilg, in the final 800 meters of the Old Oraibi 8k footrace The START LINE was a scratch of blue cornmeal across the weather-smoothed dirt in the America’s most continuously inhabited village Old Oraibi. Race Director Juwan Nuvayokva, […]
Pre Race Day of the Old Oraibi 8k; Hopi Reservation, Arizona, last saturday. *** “If something can be remedied,Why be unhappy about it?And if there is no remedy for it,There is still no point in being unhappy.”– ShantidevaGuide to the Boddhistva’s Way of Life one of the images that will be sure to flicker past […]
To work with changes now, in life: That is the real way to prepare for death. Life may be full of pain, suffering, and difficulty, but all of these are opportunities handed to us to help us move toward an emotional acceptance of death. It is only when we believe things to be permanent that […]
Imagine that you had gone all your life without ever washing, and then one day you decide to take a shower. You start scrubbing away, but then watch in horror as the dirt begins to ooze out of the pores of your skin and stream down your body. Something must be wrong: You were supposed […]
am i watching the Opening Ceremony… am i INTO the Olympics this year? you might be surprised at my take on it all… check out the WF SanghaLounge which is ALWAYS going OFF in the HIGHEST of WAYS!
YEAH BABY! for those of you who have been following my support of making snow at Arizona SnowBowl…which has been a legal slugfest for years primarily because of Native American’s opposing it due to religious reasons…well… The Arizona Snowbowl received great news from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Snowmaking and needed improvements at the […]
click on photos to enlarge your chi hit…my race report from The 43rd Annual La Luz Trail Race…may this benefit your own Practice: a big Sacred mountain… and… a humble WF yogi… just getting to the Start Line…just toeing the Start Line among hundreds of sport-specific runners, many of whom are wearing “Hardrock 100 Mile” […]
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