Meditate in community every evening for 5 days. Each evening an instructor will lead the community meditation, including a brief guided instruction, sitting and walking meditation, inspirational readings, and discussion.
Attend any or all of the 5 evenings.
Gluten-free spaghetti with textured soy protein cooked mostly in red wine, with onion, garlic, super hot sauce and liquid vegan mozzarella #comfortveganfood
Late afternoon on the beach
A week of meditation in December!
Playing around with AI.
This Sunday!
Felt like taking a moody, existentially angsty, profoundly self-centered selfie. Enjoy. #theartiste
Who does not need help with tension?
A little animation with the help of AI #midjourney
Is your body uncomfortable when you meditate? Do you experience tightness or holding in your neck, shoulders or back? Or perhaps you just want to explore the physical aspect of meditation more fully? This workshop offers practical instruction on how to release habitual patterns of tension.
Adulting is a lot. Let’s practice being human.
If life feels a bit much with career shifts, changing relationships, and too many screens, you’re not alone.
This is just the beginning. Let’s move with change together.
With a little help from AI
Now he’s into going to secret missions to “visit” the neighbors, or so I think (they are secret after all), and always comes home licking his lips. Yesterday’s find? Sweet breadsticks. Just like his mama: carb-obsessed. I can’t even be mad. #myolddog
A morning stroll with a stop a the local store to get some needed supplies and some totally unneeded pastries for a second breakfast #lifesucks
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That room is also virtual :) my real room is not ready for a public audience … yet
I just wanted to see if a piece of furniture would fit. A normal person would grab a tape measure. I asked ChatGPT to make a 3D model, converted it to USDZ, and placed it in my room with the Vision Pro.
By the time I was done, the item was sold out. #overcomplicating
Let’s get some work done #sacrifices
No Amazon Prime either, but there’s this one spot where, if I order lunch, it beats me to the door. Today another one of those moment (different place): delivery in under 10 minutes, handed off by a delightfully cheerful young woman. There’s still hope: not everything moves at the tranquilo pace.
Friend: reorganizes the whole house
Me: admiring my Leaning Tower of Pisa solar light like it’s fine art.
So now I live in an enchanted garden, but a carry on has “disappeared” with needed cables, computer accessories and documents. Then yesterday a storm kicked the shutters wide open, blowing around stuff left on the deck and shaking every plant and tree in the yard. Eduardo? Slept through it all.
So yes, I’m delighted this abomination is finally being exposed for what it always was: human misery packaged as prime-time entertainment and peddled as “health”. END OF RANT
It wasn’t “tough love,” it was televised abuse. And the cultural fallout—cementing toxic stereotypes about fat people, feeding society’s obsession with body shaming—was nothing short of poisonous.
The so-called “experts” (doctors, trainers, whoever) oozed smug cruelty. And that one female trainer? Downright revolting. The entire concept was grotesque: humiliating vulnerable people, wrecking their health, and shredding their dignity, all for ratings and cash.
I’m watching the documentary on The Biggest Loser and I feel gloriously vindicated. I always loathed it. Never managed a full episode (just snippets here and there) but even those were enough to make my skin crawl. ..
We hope to see you on Sunday. We also hope the video did not get all cropped up #newbie #NYC #meditation
What is the actual practice? Being with things as they are. Not affecting airs to appear spiritual but meeting this moment in its realest, rawest, most authentic state.
New writing now live:
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Ta-da! We’re not entirely sure how this works, but we’re happy to be here. Thanks for your patience as we figure it out!
See you Sunday?
