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Another long gap between posts. How easy it is to fall out of habit as the year progresses. Here we are nearing December and I feel as though so many of the habits I worked so hard to maintain are falling to the side. I had a couple weeks of illness which derailed my running.…

I have not posted in a while – in over a month I believe – and the longer I go without posting, the harder it seems to want to post. So I am going to try to break my non-posting rut I have been in and post today. Here is a photo I took last…

I grew up in the mountains and a couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to go back there and explore a bit with some friends and family. It has been a hot summer in North America, but the mountains were cool not too hot. Nature is an easy subject to photograph, especially the…

I ran a 10 km race yesterday. It wasn’t my first, and it probably won’t be my last. I actually didn’t want to run it at all. For the past couple weeks I wasn’t feeling great about being out and running. It didn’t feel as fresh as it has in the past. It just felt…

Monday was the first full moon after the solstice, when the moon is closest to the earth and shines brightest in the sky. Those who practice Vedic meditation celebrate with Guru Purnima. I have been practicing Vedic meditation for three years. Every day, twice daily, I meditate for twenty minutes. In an earlier post, I…

Often when I’m working at my desk or sitting in meetings high in office buildings, I imagine myself on the other side of the window, dangling from a rope, and slowly washing the window with a spray bottle and a window scraper. I think of making my way across the building and up and down…

I took some time the other day to go on a walk without my phone. I found myself in a laneway behind some homes. A house had a planter hanging from a low window. It had rained that morning and everything was still a bit wet. I stopped to look at the plants and notice…

This past weekend I ran 23 kms along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. The Great Ocean Road is a 240 km stretch of road along the southern coastline of Australia and my run was just a short stretch of it. It was part of the Great Ocean Road Running Festival. There were many events…