DISQUS

Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Committment, by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks.

I'm more in touch with the physical. It's happening slowly, but I am steadily trying to build on awareness inside my body, not just my head.

Food. Movies.

Repeat.

I've been going to the gym - doing ten minutes each on three machines (the bike, the rowing machine, and the treadmill), and then stretching and (my favourite) Shavasana for a few minutes. I feel genuinely blissful afterwards, which was a total shock. I've been going almost every day.

It is genuinely exciting.

Building a sense of community. Exercising for the first time in years. The view out my window. Water. Writing.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon

Middlesex - Jeffrey Euginides

Both astoundingly well written, both Pulitzer winners. Love.

Research.

Sparkly eyes. Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords. Strong hands. Kisses at the nape of my neck. Openness.

Retirement savings.

Aglio e olio. Any kind of pasta. Yum. It is bliss.

With romano cheese, even though that's apparently not very Italian of me.

When I know I need to connect to the quiet part of myself. Really, though, what I'm working on is not hiding. Coming out when I know I need to connect to others, finding someone to talk to, going outside to see who I come across. Not hiding within a group when I feel disconnected (by that I mean not tuning out).

Create (food, art, writing), ingest (food, art, literature, film, air), move, love, appreciate.

Thanks Joannie,

I've been living in a new city for all of three days, not knowing anyone, moping around, telling people I was sick of my own company, when I realized: that's what I've got. I'm going to be there, wherever I am, and I better get used to it, and start enjoying myself. Enjoying my self. And being aware of me and centering, even though I feel a little off my axis.

The fact that wherever I go, there I am.

I read this on a blog somewhere recently, of course I can't remember where.

Never be with a man you wouldn't be totally proud to have raised if he were your son.

Obviously you can insert the words woman and daughter into the sentence, if that better suits your needs. This piece of advice totally resonated with me, I think it's a great checkpoint.

I want to feel the way I do when I'm floating in a large, salty body of water. Totally relaxed and totally supported. Supple.

A beautiful home next to a large(ish) body of water where I write and cook and sing and dance and love and live.

"And the day came where the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin

If you need some alone time, make sure you get it.

Drew Barrymore and Mandy Moore. Mostly because I think I would like both of them as people.

Meryl Streep.

Oh! Sophia Coppola. Her style is so simple but so perfect. Yeah, her. I'll just hang out with the other ones.

Iron Man.

It's so good to see Robert Downey Jr back at it.