Greville Henwood teaches kids to be yogis
http://www.examiner.com/yoga-in-los-angeles/greville-henwood-teaches-kids-to-be-yogis
A Walk Through OccupyLA in Photos
http://www.examiner.com/family-issues-in-los-angeles/a-walk-through-occupyla-photos
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I am completely past due in posting anything. With voice memos on my phone and photos ready to go, time has moved to the present, yet I must document my past.
Perhaps once again you are changing format, even if just for today. Today feels like a memoir. What is a memoir, anyway? An account, a record, of things gone by. All things gone by bring us to this very moment. Why not document them? It is a continual bank of moments in an endless vault until we leave our bodies. If we pay attention, which most of us don’t, we may build on those moments, or at least acknowledge they existed.
August , 9, 2011 4:08pm
My mother’s birthday. 83 years.
Walking my dogs. Collie got freaked by the mailman on a walk. His mail cart spooked him. Sounds or movements sometimes do. He knicked the mailman, which is uncharacteristic of him. Mailman okay but I was jittery about the whole thing.
August 21, 2011 1:53pm
Sitting in car parked in front of gym. I’m contemplative and talkative. It is a different experience listening to oneself and transcribing from there. I now have to paraphrase as closely as I can, what I said. It was summer. I had much free time. School was out and I don’t work over the summer. Each summer I experiment with online dating. This summer was no different. My experiment lasts two weeks.
” I e-mail back and forth and it is a rare instance that I make a date. I go back and forth in my mind. I say I want to meet someone and inwardly I say I don’t. I say I don’t want to meet someone because I like my life the way it is. Or, is it because I am so jaded to make a relationship work, or enter into one, or afraid to get close.”
I did meet someone who I did not linger online with and got to the phone call stage quicker than usual. Fellow writer, we laughed a lot. I e-mailed him my articles. He said he knew someone who could help me with my book . I felt so Hollywood. Could that really happen? Couple of dates, laughter, faded away.
Friday, August 26, 2011 4:21pm Photo Log
Parked on Gregory and Swall about to go into the nail salon. Once again in the car and taking a journey back to
a life gone by. I was two blocks from where I lived when the kids were young and growing up. We lived in the house on La Peer. I know this route well.
”I want to go back to that time when I was walking those streets, a mother with two young kids, raising them married and single. I was divorced while living in that house. It was a sweet time because they were young, we did sweet things together. Things you can do when they are young. Things you can’t do when they’re older, because they move on, to their friends, away to their lives. I am looking at this street which has not changed in ten years. Remembering the sweetness about it. We takes those moments, those sweet images of our lives and we put them in out hearts, minds, memories, and we pull them out, they come out in an instant, when we are parked in that familiar place and there will be a bittersweet pang that we can’t relive those moments. Good, bad, indifferent, those are the moments that make up the fabric of our lives. End of entry.
Yom Kippur Saturday, October 8, 2011 4:21PM
A thing with my son over timing of evening services. We ended up not spending Break Fast together. Me very sad, crying. Hearing that same played over despair I go through. Such pleading desperation in my voice, to myself, no one else. A hurt that I feel, an unreconciled acceptance of my life as it is.
Listening to myself just a few days ago, today is October 10, I know the different chattering/s going on in my mind is what keeps the circle going round. The unsettled mind has no rest and tricks us into thinking things are not the way they are supposed to be, but in a way where we become frozen and despaired.
Things are the way they are supposed to be, because it they were not, they wouldn’t be the way they are. Could they be improved upon? %#$@ yea! The how part needs to be worked on. The ready part does, too. The reasons: two important ones, and myself.
Monday, October 10, 2011 3:12pm.
Up to date. Work closed today. The exhaustion is given permission to settle upon me. I’m not an autopilot person. An early bird I have never been. In college I wrote a poem about being a night bird. When the alarm rings at 5:50am I cringe. My body wants to pull my mind back under the covers and wish the snooze turn into Saturday, or is it my mind pulling my body. The body-mind synergy.
I close for now. Intentions set to visit again soon.
Memoir: an account of events, thoughts, feelings, life story, chronicle, narrative, autobiographical, possibly sequential, ever changing, staying alive, or covering a specific period of time.
THE BENEFITS OF YOGA FOR CHILDREN
http://www.examiner.com/family-issues-in-los-angeles/the-benefits-of-yoga-for-children
“School’s Out for Summer”….Alice Cooper
Beverly Hills High School’s summer classes ended on Friday, August 5. For all the boys and girls who attended summer school, you can breathe a sigh of relief. School is not out forever, as Alice Cooper would like you to think. The fall semester resumes again on Tuesday, September 6.
With a four week break the question is what to do. Sleeping late is on the agenda. Going to the beach or a friend’s pool is a fun and relaxing way to keep cool and go back to school with a tan. Perhaps a long awaited family get-a-way is in the making. Summer jobs help pay for much wanted cars, gas, movies, and fall clothes. Going to the gym is a healthy way to stay in shape while working out with friends. Sports Club LA on Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills is home to many Beverly Hills High School students. The boys love to bench press while the girls love the aerobics or spin classes.
Students in Advanced Placement English do have a list of summer reading which has to be completed by the first day of school. Time management is the best way not to have to read three or four books one week before school starts.
The Cross Country Team continues conditioning throughout August with a short break. Please check with your coach as to when the break is.
Parents of students on school sports must download from the school website forms regarding medical clearance and other Athletic Participation Forms. The drop down menu will direct you to the Athletic Forms.
All parents must download Back to School Forms per the grade level of the student.
bhhs.bhusd.org
High school is an exciting time. The transition from teen to adult is most apparent after age sixteen when kids can get their driver’s license. Driving is a rite of passage. Parents are no longer needed to transport their child to parties, friend’s houses, or sports events. Driving opens the door to freedom.
Driving also has its hazards. The law is very specific for new drivers under the age of 18, whose license is considered provisional. When your child becomes 18 the provisional part of the license ends.
A minor must be at least 16 years old and have finished both driver education and driver training, and have their permit for at least six months before taking their license test. Parents are required to supervise their child a minimum of 50 hours of driving practice in addition to the formal driving training.
Once your child receives the license the law is very clear-cut as to the rules.
During the first 12 months after the teen is licensed, he or she cannot drive between the hours of 11PM and 5AM. Most importantly they cannot transport passengers under the age of 20, unless accompanied by a licensed parent or guardian, a licensed driver 25 years of age or older, or a licensed certified driving instructor. There are exceptions which can be found on the DMV website.
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/dl/dl_info.htm#FIRSTYEAR
The 2011 California Driver Handbook states: 15-19 years old have the highest traffic conviction, collision, and injury rates of any age group. Traffic collisions are the leading cause of death for teens.
Driving friends around illegally can only contribute to these statistics. Distractions do not make for safe driving. Teens are driving their friends around. Taking a spin in the car is a summer activity.
Parents please help your teen enjoy what is left of summer. Encourage safe habits and monitor their activities, in all areas. Teens are both adults and children. It is the child part that needs firm guidance. Keep your child and other parent’s children safe. Don’t let your teen drive their friends any place.
Enjoy a safe summer.
Om In The Home →
Yoga is a personal practice of self-realization which unites our ability to stop, look, and listen to our inner voice devoid of the clutter that clouds our minds and distorts our perceptions about ourselves, our potential, and the circumstances which make up the fabric of our lives. It gives us the opportunity to meet the person in the mirror.
Om is the sound makes when the world is in perfect harmony. Find the Om in your life.
Yoga Basics from Om In The Home - The Significance of OM
The Bhagavad Gita, one of the ancient Indian scriptures, a core text of the Hindu literary tradition describes the word Om in chapter 17, verse 23. The three words which represent Brahman (the absolute) are: Om Tat Sat. Om is the Truth. Tat means that. Sat means truth. Om, the manifestation of the absolute truth denoted with the capital letter ‘T’, takes form as the unspoken sound, OM. Om is sometimes called pranava, one that hums. Hence the sound we are familiar with as the “ommmm”. This hum is the very first word, the first sound. We can say this represents god. We can say this represents the highest connection to consciousness, to the infinite. The idea of ‘first’ links us to the idea of creation, something grander and larger than our daily surroundings. Something that is non dualistic as the word and sound are one in the same. When there is no duality there is only the truth of the matter, there is simply what is. Om lives in all of us. The “Om in the home”, this non dual state, the perfect truth and harmony resides in all of us, ready to be detected. The detection, the realization of this truth is knowledge. Enjoying the knowledge, this Self knowledge leads to bliss and a fulfilling life.
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