These are my happy times, when the Aspens can no longer whisper their cheers to me… when, lower, the harvest begins to wane and the Bear Beings begin etching their long nocturnal nap beds…. when I force myself time and again to my lonely walk and work to the utmost upon this aging body of mine… There is warmth in the valleys
7+ years ago; BRRRRING! goes our doorbell at “Two Tree Manor” our precious home in Kinlani. Joy was in her full-on Ganesha Mode; hugely, beautifully pregnant with our chi-ld…
“PACKAGE FOR THE ILGS!”
how prophetic would soon bec(om)e that shout out from Chris. You see, Chris was our UPS Guy…and on that fine evening of September 10th, 2007 Chris delivered our package and – typical of mountain folk – he hung out a bit to chat with Ganesha Joy and i….when suddenly,
“Uh…Honey?” there was a distinct twinge of something between wonder and anxiety in her voice.
“Yeah?”… i replied feeling a sudden wave of my life changing…
“You better get our hospital bag…”
“A beautiful fall day for a run in my back yard. Ai Imawa Fit Kit” THANK YOU, FIT KIT!!! so…what’s YOUR ‘go-to’ Backyard Run look like?! send ’em JPG’s to steve@wholisticfitness.com
…and Daddy LOVES YOU, my precious Baby Girl… my precious Rinpoche Who Chose To C(om)e Through Joy and feeble i!!! LOVE YOU…waaaay beyond Wor(l)ds!!! note the dual-facing OM Symbols on either side of the Smiling Heart!!! DAT’S “my” girl!!!!
feeble ilg, bridging East/West fitness modalities since 1981, shown here recently in his h(om)e studio gettin’ his Vagal Tone on via Bharadvajrasana…”eventually the Outer World will catch upto – and at least acknowledge – the incredible pioneering force of Wholistic Fitness®…or maybe not..it’s all Go(o)d…”
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“Chances are VERY likely,” i went on as we were in various stages of sacred sweat, “that if your mind is running rampant and far away from the Mantra in this class? Well, that same likelihood of rampant mind will occur outside this class, and that, my friends along the Path? Is precisely how we get hurt; rampant mind.”
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feeble ilg is reckoning on this Knight of nights as the Sacred River heralds her 1,500′ cfs ujjayi sound outside my office h(om)e,
that i may well be an emanation/re-incarnation of Der Schopenhauer…
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