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See, I’m being nice and polite and not writing about it constantly, but I’m 21 days into the yoga now and it’s interesting. Others in better shape would be soaring along but I’ve got years of bad desk habits that the yoga is first dealing with.
At this point, Marty says I look secure, like [...]

It’s the fizziest ultimate bubble bath of your childhood all grown up, Mister and Madam Bubble dropping the shower curtain on their library of reflections.

The title says it all. Gore Vidal Speaks Seriously Ill of the Dead.
I laughed. And I laughed. Which was a nice balance for the cry I had the other day, from which I don’t feel much recovered.

Was talking with a sister last week about her eldest daughter’s engagement to an Australian and she brought up the song “Waltzing Matilda”, how she was unfamiliar with it and he’d introduced her to the song during his Christmas stay with the family. My mind went immediately to “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” [...]

Here Kitty! Kitty!
Copyright H.o.p. 2008
What fun.
Am listening to Marc Gunn’s Irish and Celtic podcast. That’s fun as well.
Loading music onto the iPod for the trip.
I lost my bagpipe CD. I need to find some bagpipe music.
Yes, I love bagpipes.
Marty does not. He finds them irritating.
I used to fancy learning to play the [...]

I’m not big on Bergman. Yes, I’ve got “Bergman on Bergman” on the shelf but that’s from my late teens and early twenties.
However H.o.p. came across Bergman’s Seventh Seal I don’t know but a couple weeks ago he brought it up.
“What’s The Seventh Seal?” he asked.
Yes, I watch great movies with H.o.p. H.o.p. [...]

So, I’m on my 16th day of yoga and for the past 11 days I’ve been using Elsie Escobar’s yoga podcasts.
When I first came upon Elsie’s website I wasn’t sure what to think and actually, the first time, passed it by without downloading anything. She seemed too personable and I didn’t quite trust that. [...]