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.
The famous cottage potatoes thing started because I couldn’t make hash browns correctly. There was just no way the hash browns were able to develop the texture I desired and when I really thought about it I had to admit that the hash browns in the restaurant were not much better. It is true that […]
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Have I ever mentioned that I am perhaps a bit stubborn and a bit slow to change directions? There’s an axiom from the world of commodities and stocks: Your first loss is your best loss. Which is another way of saying “don’t throw good money after bad.” That came up while hiking in the rain
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What is it? The hiking trails at Arapaho Bend rate as “pretty amazing, considering where they’re located,” to me. Arapaho Bend is one of Fort Collins many Natural Areas. The trail loop network runs a total distance of 4 miles. These trails loop around ponds created from abandoned gravel pits. Hikers, boaters, horsemen and runners
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What is it? “Deep crimson and tan rocks, rolling grasslands, and sandy washes await you at Red Mountain Open Space,” according to the Larimer County website. The park is comprised of nearly 16,000 acres. Our Fort-Collins-based hiking meetup group visited Red Mountain Open Space on Saturday. Thirty or so of us hiked eight miles across
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Last week I announced that instead of going to counseling I was going to go to yoga to try to treat depression. I came to this plan totally on my own, without doing any research. I just remembered how in the past I felt much better by doing yoga. Actually, I remembered one specific time.
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I have decided to return to yoga with a renewed commitment. And the reason I have returned is because I have been too … well subject to too much depression. I tried to address it by going back on Buproprion, an anti-depressant prescribed me 18 months ago and which I stopped taking a few months
Yoga When You’re Depressed. Yes, it Works Read More »
Are There Exposures in Everyday Life as Well? What is a hike with exposure? We’re talking about cliffs. I belong to one MeetUp group of backpackers who keep posting trips I’m not sure I could survive. Doesn’t matter what clothes I wore, or what brand of backpack I managed to get. They just sounded hard.
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It’s all about the gear, people. There’s even a name for it: The mountain person who has too much gear is a Gearhead. But the fact is, never mind all those people who want to be fashionable in the mountains. The truth is, fashion has little place out here. Outside Magazine Tells the Hipster Millenial
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Now it is Friday and the meetup hiking cabin trip is in the past. The wooden cabin covered with snow, the kitchen with pans and gadgets and dull knives and a big table in the middle with benches like in a lumber camp that sits eight, it’s history. How did it go, my friends asked
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