Archive for the ‘Wild Women’ Category
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Some of you might be wondering how the Phantom Trail Race on November 12 went. I must say, it was one of the best races I've ever run. It was as if I had my own personal race course set up for me in the forest, with an aid station, ...
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Now I know why some of my friends who are really good runners wear hardly any clothes! I'm not talking about streaking, exactly, though I remember that was a really popular activity when I was a kid. I'm talking about my observation that the friends I've run with who are ...
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Not that it has to be piddly. But I am hoping that 20 of my friends will pledge 50 cents a day. That means if I do yoga for all 30 days, meeting the Reach Out Challenge, your donation would be $15. (In case you didn't read my last entry, ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Just back from an amazing full moon trail run along the Burrard Inlet. Once again I am in love with the night and with night running. Night runs are the special ones. They usually happen when life is so busy I have to just push against the limits and boundaries ...
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Taking a brief detour from the journey to Boulder, Colorado, I want to tell you today about [Vancouver doctor, researcher, Buddhist, music-lover] Gabor Maté's book When the Body Says No. He explores the relationship between stress and illness, and in this passage, describes how stress can be addictive:
For those habituated ...
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
July 16-17, 2011 - CANCELLED
$349 includes teaching fees and delicious organic vegetarian lunch, snacks, and tea
Location: Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve, North Vancouver
9:30 - 4:30, Saturday & Sunday
Guides: Angela and Karen are teaming up for the second year in a row. For a glimpse into the awesome time had by all ...
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
As you may recall, I have explored the subject of anger from many different perspectives—anger as it relates to the essential aspect of strength; anger arising from psychological issues; anger as a defense mechanism and a character trait. I have personally worked on my own anger many times during nature ...
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Sunday, November 21st, 2010
As I have mentioned previously, a wise wild woman suggested that the great grey owls I encountered this summer were angry. I considered her interpretation of the events, and decided to follow her suggestion of performing a ceremony to let the owls know of my good intentions.
I have long been ...
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Saturday, November 13th, 2010
I have come to Monkey Valley for the month of November to work on a writing project that I’ve had in mind since September 2007. It has taken a while to get up to speed with this project; I’ll tell you more about that later. But the cool thing is ...
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
I have been putting off writing this posting, but the time has come. Visitors to Monkey Valley will be sad to learn that Donald the cat has gone. He disappeared while I was at a retreat in California in August. He has been missing for two and a half months ...
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