Yoga, with an interesting instructor. She seems to live yoga. This is a good thing. She told us that she likes to give one on one attention and make corrections. This is a great thing. Excellent. I'll have yoga twice a week. Tomorrow is my nutrition class.
After class today, I ran 7 miles. Feeling good
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
School Days
Over the past couple weeks, I've been building my running up. Mondays I run 7 miles, Wednesday 5, Friday 3 miles with sprint intervals. I now run 7 miles at a 12 minute mile pace. It's been good and difficult. Perhaps the strangest thing about it is how muscle fatigues my lower abs are, and how sore they are for days afterward. So weird. But it makes sense. Tuesday's and Thursdays have become my swimming and Nike Fitness Club workout days. But that is all in flux.
This morning, I started a nutrition class at the local college. I'm not sure what exactly I am expecting to gain from taking this class, perhaps just to peek inside one of the many doors that has been gently pushed open for me lately.
Over the past year or so, I've had so many dreams that I was wandering about in corridors. Recently, I figured out what those dreams were really about and feel the need and desire to change that. My life is filled with opportunities to explore, and I am going to explore them. I may, however, be overly filled with zealousness. Currently there are 8 credits for which I am enrolled. Eight credits in eight weeks or less, plus a couple odd jobs. Odd jobs include a coat for Captain Hook in "Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan!" I'm excited to build this coat, but the deadline is awfully crunchy. As is the ancient station wagon birthday cake I'll be building for Swantje's mother's 90th birthday--this weekend. Photos to come--I hope...
The past few weeks I've been working on throwing a party to celebrate the creative process. I invited several people who are also highly creative and asked them to bring something they worked on for the party. The optional theme was "Bright Spots." I sent invites with ample time to have something prepared to share, but most folks came with older projects, or things hastily thrown together. People came, some dressed up. Bronwen came in a vintage dress she had wired to light up in a sunburst pattern. She had taught herself how to make a circuit for electricity and sewed conductive thread into the dress. So cool. Why didn't I take photos? Her husband brought a painting of a vision he had while meditating during yoga. Pete, brought a pie. Melody brought her costume sketches from grad school. Colleen brought "ancient art," watercolors she had done "years ago."
Several trips to the beach had me scrambling for ideas. When I picked up a few pieces of driftwood, I started to get some ideas. Critters were forming as I looked at the differing shapes in the wood. Eventually, I found a piece that nailed down what the driftwood was trying to tell me. Birds! There was so much movement in these crazy bits of flotsam, they needed to stay moving, so they became marionettes. Here is a link to a little video of one of the birds/creatures. Admittedly, they are weird.
Japheth on the beach
After I showed the group my project, they all decided that we need to keep meeting--to take the project more seriously, give each other challenges, and have a goal in mind. We meet again at the end of August with Nature as our theme. I need this in my life.
This morning, I started a nutrition class at the local college. I'm not sure what exactly I am expecting to gain from taking this class, perhaps just to peek inside one of the many doors that has been gently pushed open for me lately.
Over the past year or so, I've had so many dreams that I was wandering about in corridors. Recently, I figured out what those dreams were really about and feel the need and desire to change that. My life is filled with opportunities to explore, and I am going to explore them. I may, however, be overly filled with zealousness. Currently there are 8 credits for which I am enrolled. Eight credits in eight weeks or less, plus a couple odd jobs. Odd jobs include a coat for Captain Hook in "Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan!" I'm excited to build this coat, but the deadline is awfully crunchy. As is the ancient station wagon birthday cake I'll be building for Swantje's mother's 90th birthday--this weekend. Photos to come--I hope...
The past few weeks I've been working on throwing a party to celebrate the creative process. I invited several people who are also highly creative and asked them to bring something they worked on for the party. The optional theme was "Bright Spots." I sent invites with ample time to have something prepared to share, but most folks came with older projects, or things hastily thrown together. People came, some dressed up. Bronwen came in a vintage dress she had wired to light up in a sunburst pattern. She had taught herself how to make a circuit for electricity and sewed conductive thread into the dress. So cool. Why didn't I take photos? Her husband brought a painting of a vision he had while meditating during yoga. Pete, brought a pie. Melody brought her costume sketches from grad school. Colleen brought "ancient art," watercolors she had done "years ago."
Several trips to the beach had me scrambling for ideas. When I picked up a few pieces of driftwood, I started to get some ideas. Critters were forming as I looked at the differing shapes in the wood. Eventually, I found a piece that nailed down what the driftwood was trying to tell me. Birds! There was so much movement in these crazy bits of flotsam, they needed to stay moving, so they became marionettes. Here is a link to a little video of one of the birds/creatures. Admittedly, they are weird.
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Japheth on the beach
After I showed the group my project, they all decided that we need to keep meeting--to take the project more seriously, give each other challenges, and have a goal in mind. We meet again at the end of August with Nature as our theme. I need this in my life.
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