i am grateful for:
1) forgetting (being in denial about) an umbrella and getting mist-rained on for about 20 minutes
2) hanging with ms. d. and getting to remember what teaching yoga is really about: being present with people. creating and holding space for something healing and nice to happen. really. the rest is frosting.
3) big bird
4) going to stone barn tomorrow for the harvest fest! yay.
5) partnering with a famous photographer in yoga yesterday. who also knows my sixth grade boyfriend. funny, fame. it’s like a karmic accident, little to do with the people we make so large. he was shy and nice and talked about not being present. why is that worth reporting? why does it make me feel grateful? because it’s a sign, somehow, a reflection of my own potential for success? a reminder that success need not mean being anything other than me, also not terribly present, also stiff in my body? not sure of the tea leaves on this, but it felt like a nice goddess wink.
6) having my photo taken professionally in the park by sweet charles. excited to have hot pink yogini images.
7) being reminded by j. to add things to the “to-done” list that don’t necessarily look like work, but are.
8) connecting with a man who connects to himself. and loves gilmore girls, despite himself. and this amazing quote: “Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each experiences the self from its center. Only in this “central experience” is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love. Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves. There is only one proof for the presence of love: The depth of the relationship, and the aliveness and strength in each person concerned; this is the fruit by which love is recognized.” – Erich Fromm
9) new friends. i feel proud that i have maintained many old friendships and that i make new ones too. this is something i really like to experience–history and growth. and something i like about myself–loyalty and openness.
10) dan savage
11) my dear s.! for winning an emmy! such a well-deserved emmy for one in eight million.
12) mae west
13) the jason schwartzman new yorker ipad ap ad. love.
