Category: Musings
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The Yoga of Relationships, Part I: Center yourself to connect with another
In the yogic tradition I trained in, the ground is the first point of focus. Upon entering a pose, we draw our attention to points of contact with the earth, sensing energy move from the ground into our body, turning the spirals of energy that then fuel the full expression of the asana. Where is…
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Yoga for Relationships
A Series on Communication After a somewhat difficult morning with our six month old baby who disagreed with us about the level of daylight that should accumulate before starting our day, my husband and I had a rough conversation or two before he left for work at my dad’s business, where he is a senior engineer. …
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8.24.2021 Waiting
Some of us who wait, bellies full of dawn, some leaf through the research, dig through the lore, the impressions of the past, the promises of the future… I do none of these things. I don’t know why not. I wait only. I sit with dawn swelling my belly, so large I cannot fold in…
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Monument Valley, Navajo Nation
If you survive the journey, the hands of a desert god wave to greet you. First you must trust that there will be water, for you are not of the desert. You are a guest, a stranger: you drink water without knowing where it comes from. Your ancestors wallowed in water. The hands of their…
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On Writing: For Campbell
Hi Campbell, I hope you had a lovely, relaxing holiday break. I am sorry this has taken so long. I have been waiting to hear back from my mentor, Sean Murphy, hoping to send his greetings with my answers. He is an award-winning published author and a trainer of young writers, as well as a…
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July 23rd-24th, 2016: Green River, WY to City of Rocks, ID to Glenn’s Ferry ID
July 23rd, 2016, City of Rocks National Monument, Idaho Dried wild onion with our camping pass. Having the first moment for myself for a couple of days, I am breaking the breezy evening peace with country music played over my flat-sounding phone speakers. But after a day spent in the car, making the endless…
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July 22nd, 2016: Golden, CO to Green River, WY
We spent the first night of our trip along a tributary of the Green River called Black’s Fork in the southwestern reaches of Wyoming, just short of the Utah border. We pulled off Scenic Byway 530 onto a dirt track worn by oil exploration and drove in a half-mile to a pullout looking toward the…
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Celebrities, Social Media, and (not) the Moon
I started thinking about this today while I was discussing ancient myths with my seventh grade students. When you hear a mythical story, are you knowing the celebrities of yore? Totally. Humans weren’t all of struck by a sudden fascination with larger than life characters when cameras and film are invented- no way! People followed the…
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Nature: So much more than an amusement park
Two mornings ago, I was standing atop Long’s Peak with, oh, thirty other people. Long’s is a Colorado monarch, the northernmost fourteener of over fifty in my home state. It’s a darn tough, technical, mountain climb, and obsessively crowded. Most of the folks on the summit were like me, in their twenties or thirties, many…
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Surfing, Silphium and Time Travel (but not as exciting as that sounds)
Today I got home from school, napped, and consumed a load of carbs- my usual Wednesday afternoon dwindle to a near halt. When I woke up, work was still washing up on the shores of my mind like a stupid duck-shaped paddle boat that someone forgot to tie to the dock. So I planned some objectives and KUD’s…
Laura Catherine Mace 