Archive: 2013

“Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life’s hard.”
~ John Bytheway

From time to time, even I need to be reminded of my most favorite of all quotes.  As I sat quietly in the warm sunrise this morning, my mind was already stacking up what the day held in store for me.  I was thinking about the mess of unfinished projects that I left sprawled all over my desk.

Peter McWilliam wrote:

When we put things off until some future –  some probably mythical ‘Laterland’ – we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday’s incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don’t carry it. read more

“Our attention is the most valuable thing we have, and the visible world can be an addictive, overstimulating, and spiritually debilitating lure.”
~ David Life

I was chatting with a friend yesterday about her recent attendance at a workshop held by the great yogi Rodney Yee. What seems to have stood out for her was his continued redirection of students to what is known as “drishti” or our focal point. I guess he ‘called out’ alot of highly distracted and a few egocentric people! read more

“One ship sails east and another sails west
With the self-same winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sail and not the gale
Which determines the way they go.
As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate
As we voyage along through life,
Tis the act of the soul that determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.”
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In all this stillness, the Rolex Regatta began here on St. Thomas yesterday.  It’s a bit breezier today, but I was marveling this morning at how skillful these sailors must be to move their vessel, even in these lightest of winds.  I think sailors are great opportunists. read more