Thursday, September 23, 2010

Ashram-alama-ding-dong!


Some day, I am going to go to one of the Sivananda ashrams in India, for a good, long while. I have decided that this shall happen, despite the general sentiment that, with my "odd" health, I'd be pushing up the daisies within a fortnight in such a tropical, third world location. Ha! Ha, I say to my nay-sayers! I will go and I will not end up as worm food, at least not there.... I have a special affinity with the Sivananda tradition, not just because it is one of the most honoured and classical yoga traditions there is, but also because one of my beloved teachers studied long with Swami Vishnudevananda, who, in turn, was one of the main disciples of Swami Sivananda himself. It is as quintessentially yogic, and Indian an experience as one can find. I include a pic of some ashram action, just to tantalise myself, and show the universe what will be mine one day. If I can just turn a bit of a blind eye to some of the conditions of animals in India, I will be just fine. I will embrace a sacred cow, and I will befriend an elephant! Jaya Krishna! Om gum Ganapataye namaha!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Sunday night...

...and I'm ever so tired. My feet hurt, laundry to finish, a missing mouse, a dog to walk, miles to go before I sleep. ....I kind of don't enjoy Sunday nights. Back into the fray. Boy, what a pointless blog....Sometimes a gal really don't know when to shut her gob. Ok. I can take a hint.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Autumn means....time to blog again!


As sands through the hourglass, so are the blogs of my life....they come and they go. Summer seems so...unbloggy. You know, on a summer day or eve, all you want to do is haul your glass of bubbly onto the back patio, with a good book, glossy mag, delightful friend or an ever-interesting husband, plus a loyal four legged chum, and while the hours away. Blogging just doesn't seem the ticket. HOWEVER.....autumn is another matter. Life becomes all scheduled again, and there isn't much whiling away to be done, so to blog seems a good thing to do, in between all the marshalling of troops, etc.

I begin my fall blogging season with the included photographic offering above. This is Daphne Guinness, brewery heiress, and hardcore fashionista....I saw this pic, and it made me day. So there.