Tag: time
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It is Time
Dear Yoga Friends, Each of our days holds twenty-four precious hours, and depending on our circumstances, those hours either drag on endlessly or rush past us on bird wing. I have a wonderful poet friend who once told me that she simply could not carve out time to write anymore; instead, she had to “take a machete” to her days…
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An All-Saints Kind of Gratitude
I look back through Novemember’s just-hanging-on leaves, the negative space of our promises to drive through Malabar’s winding road, taking in October’s blasts of color. The weeks have whipped by, the leaves ignoring my requests to stay, to never fall away, and my melancholy drips bitter without the sweet. Then I see our love’s first fruits hanging on…
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Filling the Vase
I used to stand in our galley kitchen, feet planted in tadasana, peeling the tough skin from grapes and cutting the pulp into quarters, and I marveled at my blessings. Today I stand in the same kitchen, haphazardly in tadasana, making quesadillas baking cookies while the babe pops in from the yard with dandelions and clover for my vase,…
Amy Secrist 