No Entry --- Day 153

Walk:  R/T Trader Joe's via JCC, R/T Athleta on Fillmore Street
Distance:  3 miles, teach class at JCC, try on more clothes

Busy conceiving of summer and preparing to dress for it.  Meanwhile new altarpiece tryptypch arrived from artist friend who also took charge of framing it.  Absolutely lovely.  More another day.....

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Ready for Farmer's Tan --- Day 152

Walk: R/T car and de Young; Corte Madera Shopping Center, etc
Distance:  2 miles and try on clothes (whew)

My beautiful friend Andrea came to the rescue.  Reminded me of a store we don't like to support because of their politics (I'll leave it at that).  But, you know, they do do summer - affordable summer (and the other 3 seasons) at affordable prices.  So, now I do have summer things in my closet, and off I'll go into the heat this Sunday for a few days.  Thank you, Andrea.

Summer Whites -- Day 151

Walk: R/T Mindful Body, R/T Fillmore Street
Distance: 3 Miles, Yoga Class, Try on summer (?) clothes

Here I am in the proverbial full closet with 'nothing' to wear situation.  Reason:  I will go to summer, whatever that is, in a few days.  Here in San Francisco we live in permanent, Permanent Fall.  So colors, weight of clothes, sleevelength, layers are pretty much geared to that: dark, mid-weight, long, warm.  As I dimly recall summer, those clothes will be preetty uncomfortable in heat and humidity.  So I'm floundering through my selection for the coming trip to whatever we call that place where you grew up.
Even if I have the clothes right, the skin tone won't be.  Remember how we used to point and laugh at white legs.  Well, what comes around goes around....

Let sleeping cats lie*.. --- Day 150

Walk: R/T MB, several trips up and down stairs to street(if you saw them, you'd be impressed)
Distance: 1 mile and teach

When her sister, Tika,  died a little over a year ago, my cat Callie began to sleep with me.  I felt sorry for her losing her sister and let her do it for a while.  Well, when will I ever learn that when cats find something they like it becomes an instant pattern?  They do not do it for a while.  Similar mental lapse when I took my first trip after Tika died and found Callie a catsitter who stayed with her while I was away.  Now, between my/our/her bed, cleaning girl and catsitter, she has learned she never, ever has to be alone - and I pay for my travel as well as Callie's live in while I'm away and probably with the allergies I've been mentioning lately while I'm here.

Oh, well, I'd hate to have her be uncomfortable (if that is possible for cats).









* Like Jon Carroll, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist I like, I will allow myself to have the dreaded cat column from time to time.

Oh no, Not Starbucks --- Day 149

Walk: R/T MB
Distance: 8 blocks, Yoga Class


Darn, La Boulangerie, a truly French bakery + in my neighborhood (and others) has been sold to...yes, Starbucks.  No need for saying more....

Yoga Therapy --- Day 148

Day of Rest  

Spent much of the afternoon surfing about Yoga Therapy.  Think I'll let thoughts sink in.  Off the top I feel some are truly called to this, and, more importantly that Yoga Therapy as a healing modality is very
for real.  This is a broad base of practices actually - meditation, chanting, breathwork, ayurvedic cooking, mindful eating, massage of many types, asana of various types (vini, yin, etc) - and it is certainly the way yoga is going in our culture.  When I got my antibiotics last week my doctor told me yoga is very close to being covered by Medicare - so there should be some work for those with Yoga Therapy training.  If that happens, and it is an avenue of gainful employment, those employed will be standing on the shoulders of many dedicated healers who have been working unsung for a pittance for many, many years.

House Moving? -- Day 147

Walk:  R/T Mindful Body, T. Joe's, JCC
Distance: 2 miles, teach class, 1/2 hour stationary bike

For some reason I have this feeling that Hugh Laurie/House could make the Bay Area home base.  Totally out of nowhere thought from a nowhere state of mind after teaching and puttering today.  His post House career is music and he has played several concerts around here in the past year.  Also he has said publically in England that he will likely live in the US/California when done with House.  L.A. is where he is used to, but I think he might resonate more with Northern California.  We'll see....

And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon.. -- Day 146

Walk: R/T SFJCC and Kabuki Theater (again!) (Moonrise Kingdom)
Distance:  4 Miles, yoga class and stationary bike

So, why is our blogger going to so many movies these days?  A. Because I can and I like them, but B. because I've been a bit felled by some allergy/sinusitis thing and don't have much rip-roaring energy - or even just normal energy.  Finally went the antibiotic, antihistamine route yesterday, and am already feeling better today.  Yea for Western medicine when you need it!

The whole allergy thing has prompted me to be more diligent in the future about specific aerobic exercise.  I think the hazard of teaching an athletic/physical activity is that you kind of lose track of your own personal training/fitness.  When I'm active teaching a class and walking, I feel as if I've done my exercise, and forget that working out on my own could be beneficial.  Anyway, look for me to be posting aerobic activities as well as walks - or to notice when I don't.

I should probably mention that during this allergy/sinus time I've also 'had' a heart condition, clinical depression, and probably leukemia.  A few blogs about overcoming hypochrondria are probably in my future.

Meanwhile, I think Moonrise Kingdom  is even more brilliant than I realize shortly after seeing it.  It comes from such a deeply poetic/artistic/probably musical place that it is possible that the writers and director don't know the whole of what they've said.