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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:55:21 -0700

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Tue, 21 May 2013 09:48:54 -0700

Just one of those days where I am reminded once again that good intentions are not enough.

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:33:33 -0700

Just one of those days where I am reminded once again that good intentions are not enough.

HAWT YOGA

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:49:00 -0700

Hot yoga is a little short of torture at temperatures that rival the pits of hell. Yet, for the past 2 weeks, I keep going back.

For someone who has slept through more 8:30 classes than I would like to admit, finding the motivation to wake up at 5 AM… is pretty much a miracle.

Why do I like it?

1. You sweat. A LOT.

I’m one of those old fashioned people that doesn’t feel like I’ve worked out unless I’m dripping with sweat. Working out in a furnace tends to speed up that whole process and makes me feel like I’m doing something other than breaking my ligaments and limbs.

2. There’s community, yet isolation.

It’s really rare to be in a situation where you’re doing very vulnerable things in a room full of people. Things you’ve never done with your body before as you try to move through the postures, and know that you’re not being judged. There’s such a focus on paying attention to your body, your state of being, the present moment. Yet everyone does everything in sync. I like it.

3. It’s forces me to at least be okay with and even appreciate my body.

It’s hard to come out of 90 minutes of swimming in my own sweat while simultaneously contorting my body into impossible positions and not thank your body for dealing with the torture I just put it through.

4. What you put in, you get out.

I drink 4 cups of water during those 90 minutes, yet I still come out of the class a pound lighter. Yeah. It’s that disgusting. But in 2 short weeks I’ve seen the importance of eating well, sleeping well, drinking water. It MAKES A DIFFERENCE. I’ve been eating close to vegetarian these past two weeks…. and switching over to a plant-based diet is actually really tempting.

4. It helps me start my day off right. Talking to God.

Partially because at least once in the 90 minute session, I feel like it may be my time to go be with the Lord, but I find myself talking to him a lot in those 90 minutes. Whether it be asking Him not to let me see His face quite yet. Or just talking about my day. It’s been fun to start off my days in such a manner.

"I’m a damsel. I’m in distress. I can handle this. Have a nice day."

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:22:04 -0700

“I’m a damsel. I’m in distress. I can handle this. Have a nice day.”

- Meg, Hercules (Disney)

meme4u: 98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in...

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:21:46 -0700

meme4u:

98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.

though a well recognized fixture around several of the city’s chruches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living entirely off his monthly state pension of 80 euros and the kindness of others.

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:07 -0700

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earth pleasure were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessing, and on the other, never to mistakes them for something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.”

- Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis (via roadtojjoy)

get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:16:10 -0700

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:26:04 -0700

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else”

- C.S. Lewis (via possibilityisinherhands)

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:15:01 -0700

"Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction."

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:52:36 -0700

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.”

- Bobby Sommer (via wryer)

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Mon, 13 May 2013 08:36:18 -0700

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"Jesus told the woman accused of sexual sin to “go and sin no more.” That wasn’t a threat. It was a..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:35:32 -0700

“Jesus told the woman accused of sexual sin to “go and sin no more.” That wasn’t a threat. It was a declaration of freedom. He wasn’t interested in condemning her past. He wanted to rescue her future.”

- Jesus is, Judah Smith (via littlethingsaboutgod)

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Sun, 12 May 2013 22:13:00 -0700

"A certain darkness is needed to see the stars."

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:10:41 -0700

“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”

- Osho (via thatluciegirl)

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Sun, 12 May 2013 15:15:36 -0700

queeer-o-sexual: rawlivingfoods: Seattle’s vision of an urban...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:19:44 -0700

queeer-o-sexual:

rawlivingfoods:

Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest.

“This is totally innovative, and has never been done before in a public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the Beacon Food Forest project, tells TakePart. Harrison is working on construction and permit drawings now and expects to break ground this summer.

The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in the wild. Not only is this forest Seattle’s first large-scale permaculture project, but it’s also believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.

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jensensations: Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal (x)

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:00:46 -0700

jensensations:

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal (x)

fitnessisfitforme: stronghealthyconfidence: iamnotover: Who...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:00:21 -0700

fitnessisfitforme:

stronghealthyconfidence:

iamnotover:

Who said vegan food was boring?

Vegan superfood lunches, April 2013

SO BEAUTIFUL.

:D :D :D YUMMMMM

wish I had the dedication and the creativity to make vegan work for me