Tag Archives: impermanence

December 3 – Anicca (Change)

What did you let go of this year? Whom did you let go?

Subject to change.

It took a little while for my productivity to catch up with the ideas inspired by my blessed summer idleness, but a month into the school year, I am rocking and rolling with lots of actividades — taming the wild eighth graders, sharing Dharma yoga practices, leading session on yoga for creativity and planning weekend [...]

The myth of regression.

Yesterday, I regressed. Or, I felt like I did. But how can one regress, really? Time marches on, after all. Every moment is progress. I regressed in the childlike, Freudian way. I bawled. I couldn’t hold it together. I started crying in the afternoon. I cried at work. I cried to Melissa on our walk [...]

I loved Lucy.

[Read the abridged version on Elephant Journal.] My heart is empty. Lucy was with me for nearly nine years, since my parents gave her to me when I graduated from college in May 2002. I loved her so. My constant companion died Sunday in the early evening. A surreal flurry of fleeting emotions pass through [...]