Sleep is what my body needs

I'm supposed to be doing research for one of the two organizations I do grantwriting consultancy work for. To tell you the truth, I feel lazy and just want to sleep. I don't want to work.
It seems as if this week has been all about the sleep. I don't know why my body craves it, but it does. I'm hoping that it's a cycle and my body is healing itself and gearing up for fun again.
It has to be. The weather is beautiful. There is sun. People are out. And all I want to do is sleep...

Is Music the new silence?

I would love to be able to quiet my mind and become used to the silence. I can't, though, and I'm always listening to npr, wxpn, or watching frontline or hulu on my computer.

I sometimes wonder if it's just me. I don't believe so...it's my generation. It's our need to feel connected even when we are alone. (I also think that's why my generation loves to text.)

If my generation is like this, I wonder what other generations will be like....

Will they learn that their thoughts and feelings can comfort them?

Will they be like me and believe that they have to hear another voice, see an image, view that text to be a part of this world?



Frontline: digital nation: music is the new silence

Wendell Potter: Cigna Exec who told it like it was in health care...

Yesterday I met Wendell Potter. He worked for Cigna and became a whistle blower who told the government what the health care industry was really up to.
I'm hesitant to form an opinion on him. Yes, we do need to know what's really going on in corrupt industries from insiders. Howerver, I also wonder why he didn't speak up earlier. It dosen't take a rocket scientist to know that insurance companies only care as money as the bottom line and people come last. Amy Goodman from Democracy Now interviewed him in 2009. Here's a link to hte interview. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/16/former_insurance_exec_wendell_porter

20 Minutes....

I'm counting down the seconds
Until I have to get out of the downward facing dog..
My legs to the ground,
And so are my arms.
I love it,
I just have to accept the uncomfortableness
And goofiness of my body.

April is for Yoga!

April is for yoga! I'm participating in the yoga challenged. I learned it from my old yoga teacher in Mansfield, PA.

I did yoga for the third day in a row. My goal is to do yoga everyday this month. (I'm worried what will happen when I go to D.C. for a week.)  I used to be a regular follower and lover of yoga. Most of my yoga practice ocurred in my parent's living room in high school, college dorm rooms, my Mansfield apartments. 

After moving to Philadelphia, I stopped doing yoga. I'm not sure of the exact reasons, but I believe that many activities, long nights, and carelessness on my connection to my body to my soul contributed me to not following through with the practice.

Today is Day Three of doing yoga. Day One of my yoga practice was in my grandmother's living room and days Two and Three happened at my parent's residence.

After doing yoga for 20 minutes, Today I did 20 minutes I've been doing the Sun Salutations and developing a love/hate relationship with the "downward facing dog."

It's day three, and I'm noticing something important: I'm moving with my body and not fighting my body. I love it!