And...It's alright --- Day 4/39

Walk: No; (yesterday 4 miles, no yoga)
Distance: 0, home yoga practice 


Edward Hopper, Morning Sun, 1952, oil on canvas  (Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio)

Ciwt was back in the will update business today but enjoyed the sun and beautiful weather streaming in her windows.

Please Pass the Earplugs --- Day 4/37

Walk: Fillmore (2), Geary P.O. to mail thank you
Distance: 4 miles



Ciwt (once aka Pooh) is so old she remembers dinner parties where no one discussed politics.

Always the Best Day --- Day 4/36

Walk: Fillmore Street (x2)
Distance: 5 miles and small yoga stretch



Busy enjoying the day; catch you tomorrow.

See You At The Met --- Day 4/35

Walk: Corte Madera
Distance: 1 mile and home yoga




Ciwt thinks this upcoming Metropolitan Museum project sounds very worthwhile.  Maybe you too?
The link to the video above is here, and the Met's description of the series is below.


Ever since it was founded in 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been a place where artists come to gain inspiration from works of art from their own time and place, and also from across time and cultures. 

Beginning on March 25, the Museum will launch The Artist Project, a new online photography/video series in which we give artists an opportunity to respond to our encyclopedic collection. 

For one year, we will invite one hundred artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that spark their imaginations. The artists will reflect on what art is and what inspires them from across five thousand years of art at the Met. 

Episodes will be released over the course of five seasons, and these artists' unique and passionate ways of seeing and experiencing art will encourage all Museum visitors to look in a personal way. 

Want to stay informed about featured episodes and new released? Sign up nowto receive updates. Help us spread the word about The Artist Project byforwarding this email to friends and family, or by sharing it on Facebook.

Justified Sadness -- Day 4/34

Walk: Union Square, T. Joe's
Distance: 6 blocks,  home yoga  (still trying to stretch out those feet)




     

 Last six episodes ever of Justified, and Ciwt is going to be justifiably sad when these two frienemies are history.



    

             

Under Consideration --- Day 4/33

Walk: Mindful Body
Distance: 1 mile and teach yoga class

Some Original March Madness --- Day 4/32

Walk: No, House stuff
Distance: 0, Home Yoga

"The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be raving mad – at least not so mad as it was in March."  ^{Alice, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis B. Carroll}

"Mad as a March hare" is a common British English phrase, both now and in Carroll's time (and appears in John Heywood's collection of proverbs published in 1546). It refers to the hares' frantic behavior early in the animal's long breeding season from February to September in Britain.

From Alice in Wonderland chapter A Mad Tea-Party (excerpts):

There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse¹ was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over ist head. "Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse," thought Alice; "only as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind."
The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it. "No room! No room!" they cried out when they saw Alice coming. "There's plenty of room!" said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.
"Have some wine," the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. "I don't see any wine," she remarked.
"There isn't any," said the March Hare.
"Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it," said Alice angrily.
"It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited," said the March Hare.

..."Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter.
"Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
"You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!"
"You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"
"It is the same thing with you," said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.

A Hard Pill To.... --- Day 4/31

Walk: Cinema Club (The Farewell Party), Trader Joe's
Distance: 3 miles and home yoga



So, when the label says 'Sublingual,' Ciwt now says 'pay attention.'  She began this Cinema Club day with a quick glance at her emails noticing one about a 'Care & Compassion' (ie, right to die) luncheon, then she took her vitamins along with some fresh fruit.  Then she couldn't breathe.

Then she could but barely.  Then for about an hour there was general - well, enough explanations. Turns out the tiniest, little red Vitamin B pill got stuck somewhere.

But, now standing, she marched off to her Cinema Club and found the movie to be about....Right to Die.  95 minutes staring directly at the topic.  (The Farewell Party.  Extremely well acted, excellent film all the way around, but certainly not easy at 10 a.m..  Several of the audience left before the discussion, and apparently the Boca Raton Cinema Club refused altogether to have the film shown).

So, all in all, at the end of this day with its particular theme, Ciwt is feeling fine, fit as a fiddle and So Lucky to be here.  She's planning on Soup for dinner.