“Are you sure, brown dog? Bark if I see ANYTHING at all on the street, and twice as loud if I see NOTHING at all?”
“Hmmm. Fruity, black currant, vanilla, buttery… I’d say cab-sauvignon aged in oak.”
“I’d say cherry Pop Tart.”
Synchronized Sleeping
The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Partners
June 21st is the United Nations-sanctioned International Day of Yoga (International Yoga Day). United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his Message on the 2016 International Day of Yoga, tells us, “Yoga balances body and soul, physical health and mental well-being.”
Pertinent to this year’s observance of #YogaDay, Ban Ki-moon states:
“Practicing yoga can also help raise awareness of our role as consumers of the planet’s resources and as individuals with a duty to respect and live in peace with our neighbours. All these elements are essential to building a sustainable future of dignity and opportunity for all.”
Here are some poses that have definitely improved my mental well-being:
legs up the wall pose (Viparita Karani)
downward-facing dog pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana.)
cow pose (bitilasana)
corpse pose (Shavasana)
child pose (Balasana)
treed pose (Squirrelasana)
How will you observe International Yoga Day?
Life Imitates Art
If we were having coffee, I’d ask you to pour. I’m still rather stove up from falling off a ladder yesterday. It was more like I “flew off,” with a very hard landing on a cement walkway. I didn’t have the presence of mind to take a selfie. I know that’s protocol these days.
Instead, I had to ward off the all-healing doggie kisses from my eskie Chules, make sure nothing was broken (you know, like my ladder, the screwdriver I’d been holding, the cement walk…), and then make it into the house while I could still manage the porch step.
The good news: I had cold brew coffee on hand, so I didn’t have to set up the coffee maker this morning. And I have poppy seed muffins. Help yourself.
I’ll have to keep this brief, though. I need to try and get Chules out on a walk before the muscle relaxer meds kick in. He was very upset last night when I couldn’t chase him around the house and hold our nightly wrestling match. He’s very good at laying on the guilt, with his whining and pitiful puppy eyes.
Thanks for stopping by. Mind the ladder on your way out. It looks innocent enough, but it has a mean streak a mile wide.
Thank you Diana at PartTimeMonster.com for hosting the #WeekendCoffeeShare.
The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Jubilant
dog strains at leash end plays urban Iditarod on iced concrete trails
Wow! 2016 is here already!
I suppose I made some resolutions for last year, but having forgotten what they were, I can neither celebrate my successes nor berate my shortcomings. And I’m content with that.
I think contentment was pretty much my theme for last year, and in that regard 2015 was quite fulfilling.
Cute canine couched on a crimson coverlet contentedly contemplating current conditions.
For 2016, I am foregoing the whole New Year’s resolution exercise, and in its place I’m using an idea that I picked up on The Tao of Dana blog. I’m going to consciously choose a new overlying theme for the coming year. That way it doesn’t become something to flog myself over for not completing. It’s just a gentle nudge in the direction I want to travel.
So what should my 2016 theme be? I’ll ponder that question in the next few days. And I’ll write it down and post it somewhere so I won’t forget.
But for now, I’m content to just let the new year unfold as it will.
Wishing you the best for 2016!
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