Tag: wandering
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Yoga in Paradise – Thank You Sonia

Yesterday morning and this evening a clan of howler monkeys swung from trunk to branch, defying gravity, high above our yoga platform. Syncopation – leaves and switches brush against the roof, distracting practice, challenging my dedication to that moment of yoga. What’s more important, though? Monkeys or Vrikshasana? Tree Pose: Yoga Journal Earlier today a…
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Pura Vida

It is 6:30 a.m. in Costa Rica. Songs and chatter from unseen birds fill the air. I recognize only the cooing sound of maybe mourning doves. Now and then howler monkeys shout from a distance. Chirping, crowing, tweeting. Macaws flew over us yesterday making loud parrot screeches. There are small, quieter, green parrots too, and…
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Far From Anything Like Home

It’s challenging to spend a month away from the village that has been my home for months. This journey makes me contemplate the meaning of “home”. I have told people “home is wherever I happen to be”. Living in an RV is like that. Sometimes. Other times I feel like a constant traveler. I began…
