Do you ever wish for a life do-over? I recently started playing a game called Dots on my iPhone. It’s the best kind of game app, in the worst kind of way: When each game ends you are generally left feeling grossly unsatisfied with your score, and immediately click “new game” in order to try [...]
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recalibrating
Also posted in Alexander Technique, blessings, contemplation, home, mindfulness, minimalism, prayer, rest, rituals, spirituality, wellness
Tagged blossoms, crabapple, field, green, pink, Ross Park, trees
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breathing space
I read a lot of blogs (I use Google Reader to keep track of them all), and every now and then I’ve noticed that most of the bloggers I read seem to go through periods when they don’t post much. Sometimes they offer an explanation, sometimes they don’t. (Usually the explanation has to do with [...]
Also posted in bodywork, contemplation, creativity, dreams, mindfulness, rest, soul, spirituality, wellness
Tagged breathing space, digital sabbatical, minimalism, online addiction, rest
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sick
Last weekend I started feeling nauseous after I ate my supper on Saturday night. I often feel sick to my stomach because of my migraine headaches, so I didn’t think much about it… except that it didn’t get any better, and after a couple of hours I realized that I was probably going to throw [...]
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Tagged food poisoning, illness, sick, vomiting
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sea change
I can’t tell you how frustrated I’ve been with my eating recently. I’ve been bingeing daily on chocolate and other junk food for nearly two months, and last week I was starting to feel like I had lost all control of my relationship with food. I have a history of disordered eating, and this was [...]
Also posted in contemplation, cooking, food, mindfulness, soul, wellness
Tagged bingeing, diet, eating, eating disorder, habits, Leo Babauta, Sea Change, Zen Habits
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to raw, or not too raw?
This summer I’ve been eating a lot of raw food, simply because it’s been too hot to cook much. I’m not necessarily a huge fan of raw food diets – I’ve been 100% raw for eight months in the past, and in the end I found it too restrictive and not nourishing enough. I like [...]
pain, revisited
This beautiful picture of lilacs may seem like a strange illustration for a post on pain. But the image is meaningful to me, because I created it Sunday afternoon before I sat down to write this. I had been sitting in my studio, flipping through magazines, trying to take my mind off the stabbing endometriosis [...]
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Tagged abdomen, Byron Katie, diet, endometriosis, inquiry, pain, pain management, The Work
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food as medicine
In the pre-dawn half-light, I prepare my breakfast. I wash my hands with scented vegetable oil soap and warm water. I pull my ingredients out of the fridge, one by one. A base of green leaves – romaine or leaf lettuce, sometimes accented with kale or cabbage. A colourful harmony of vegetables – different every [...]
gone sleeping
I’ve written a whole month’s worth of blog posts about bedrooms. That should give you some indication of how much I love my bed. (For more indication, read this post about one of my favorite Elizabethan songs called An Evening Hymn.) There’s been a huge war waging inside of me for the past month. The [...]
the ideal diet
Just for the record, I don’t believe there is such a thing. An ideal diet, that is. But that hasn’t stopped me from trying to find my ideal diet – because I do believe in experimenting and tweaking, in the pursuit of wellness. And it’s been a long and interesting journey. It started when I [...]
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Tagged diet, elimination diet, endometriosis, gluten free, lactose free, low carb, Mark's Daily Apple, migraines, paleo, primal, vegan, vegetarian, wheat free
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