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america needs to remember its age

"america really is a third world country" problematic terminology, i know, but the only summation strong enough to match my most frequent reflection toward home while in europe this weekend. in amsterdam (the neatherlands) and all around switzerland countrysides i saw well-paved roads and public transportation or bikes or small cars rather than pickup trucks trying to merge between awkwardly sized…

so happy

feeling so happy and grateful this morning. a weekend of asana practice, meditation, learning, and seeing my friends! sitting in the echo of fullness!

drama last night

saw the drama last night. fun watch, great editing/score. plot was C tier at best and the drama was much less dramatic than i expected.

ai is average (derogative)

yesterday a friend expressed surprise at how off putting ai sounds. he was especially bothered by the idea that ai represents the "average" of its training data. "why does the average of great human works and not-so-great memes read terribly?" and i began thinking that perhaps average is not natural. average is a concept we've created to better track data and meet metrics. but without smoothening…

grateful!

feeling so much gratitude and inspiration in yoga right now! can't wait to start my practice and offer under-served communities the space to join me

i love to move

i love to move. hot yoga last night soothed anxieties i didn't know i had. thankful!

on ahimsa, or non-violence

As I deepen my yoga practice, I'm working to better articulate my own experiences to learn from and, hopefully in the future, teach with. Yoga's eight-fold path guide us to live a meaningful and balanced life. This is the first in a series of blog posts where I'll use these eight limbs and their subsets as different containers to explore myself and my beliefs. Beginning with ahimsa . Ahimsa : the…

still nothing to do at work

i still have nothing to do at work. BUT trying to reframe this as having so much time for doing things outside of work! like making plans and doing yoga and organizing my life

stuck

i have NOTHING to do at work. and i mean NOTHING. i haven't had anything to do for the last three+ weeks. i guess it's more discomfort than anything that I'm feeling, which isn't a bad thing. i keep having to rationalize my feelings. idk.... we'll see

feeling grateful

immensely thankful for my lovely pets, coworkers i truly enjoy working with, an amazing partner, the best of best friends, and family i miss dearly