Here you’ll find posts about health, wellness, exercise, beauty, even fashion … all the things of the body. As women of a certain age, we do have a heightened concern about our bodies … we want them to be in good health, and we want to appear well in them. That can take a lot of effort and thought.
I divided this blog into four sections: body, heart, mind, spirit — the idea being to run the gamut, from the physical world to the metaphysical.
There is much in the physical world: yoga, hiking, work, money, beauty and haircare, decorating your house, celebrating holidays. Sometimes it seems my whole world is focused on the material.
But I do believe a strong and healthy body is foundational to good life and what’s more, connected to spiritual welbeing. In more than one spiritual tradition, the body is the gift of the Divine Being for us to learn about various spiritual realities. As the Christian Bible says, “your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, therefore glorify God who is in your body.”
Therefore, concern about health and the body isn’t unspiritual. It’s just our physical world. As one of my good friends told me, “you’re not a physical being having a spiritual experience, you’re a spiritual being having a physical experience.” As in, when you live in this world, in this form.
So blog posts in this category will seek to help us make the most of our physical life, in all the manifestations.
Dinner. It’s More Important than Either You or I Thought This is my roundup post about dinner. I’ve been thinking about dinner a lot these days, and not just because I’m hungry. Dinner is more important than I thought. And it’s hard to get a “real” (three course, meat, starch, and vegetable) dinner together every […]
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It came time this week for the Mountain’s Edge People, my beloved Meetup hiking group, to challenge our local landmark: the Horsetooth Rock Hike. Five miles out and back, with a rise of about 1,400, this is the Fort Collins hike. The one everyone knows. The one all the college students must do once. Though
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This week during conference night those of us who don’t do conferences came up with the idea of plank exercise challenge. I was with the specials team (that is, the PE teacher, the science teacher, the art teacher and the music teacher) and we were being bored together as we handled the school book sale,
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“I would never cut my hair.” This is what a co-worker said to me when I commented on her long, curly blond hair. She’s a woman about my age and I just had to ask her: what did she do to take care of her hair? Did she feel, as I do, super attached to
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“How many minutes of pilates a day” and “is 20 minutes of pilates a day enough” are great questions for those of us who want to be fit. Because exercising is probably number one in my plan for having good health. Now I have to admit … I’ve only done Pilates once. It was offered
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The Best Cherry Pie Recipe is the thing in our house! It’s actually a very simple one as long as you know how to make a pastry which I have covered in the apple pie recipe elsewhere on this blog. To make a cherry pie you need two cans of tart cherries. I’ll always remember
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And how I maintained my weight all these years … drinking tea All this noise about intermittent fasting has brought forth the question of what, exactly is fasting? In a world of so-called “cheat days,” are there cheat foods for fasting diets? First: Will Tea Break Your Fast? First of all, the basic answer is
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Bikram Choudhury was born 1944, in Calcutta, India. He is still today a yoga practitioner, guru, and once oversaw a vast network of yoga “Bikram Hot Yoga” studios. Like many star athletes, charges of financial misdeeds and sexual misconduct brought him unwanted attention and legal trouble. In 2018, a former employee successfully sued him for
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So you’ve gotten past using a bath towel or even a beach towel for your hot yoga class. You want to buy the best hot yoga towel. Not a complete beginner anymore so you and want to choose a towel that complements your emerging and strengthening practice. I get you. I can explain the ins
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I know, this is pretty simple stuff … but back to my cooking philosophy: so much of the world of food is get-it-done, working. Such as it is for cottage potatoes, and such it is in my recipe for pancakes in a skillet. Somewhere else on the web I read that you don’t fry pancakes,
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