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Sometimes it is hard to tell them apart. But Voltaire wrote, “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” (“The better is the enemy of the good.”) While Jim Collins said, “Good is the enemy of great.” I thought of both today during my last “on the schedule” Lotus class....
            Like Tintin, I awoke today and immediately did a long (6 minute) headstand. Apparently Tintin also does yoga in another one of his adventures, again without any explanation –– it’s just sort of happening and no one remarks or even seems to notice it. Belle...
Specifically, , a documentary about screenwriting. Seriously.  (And I think they were just going for the Script/Crypt sound-alike thing in the title for laughs without realizing they’d made an actual horror film.) But retracing my day to happier beginnings … A super-productive morning (I c...
On Friday Jonah (age eight) got us together for lunch to select Secret Santas, also announcing that if we got our own names, we had to buy a present for ourselves. And I did. There was something so sweet about this –– buying a present for yourself and wrapping it up –– that I really enjoyed. And I was dete...
Last year on New Year’s Eve I was reclining in business class on a Virgin Airlines flight to Sydney, en route to the New Zealand/Australia cruise that really did change my life. Frankly, I’ve had a lot of New Year’s Eve experiences in my day including (in what feels like another life) my ...
Today awoke and began working on the core/ab/whatever workshop for January and for our online course (amongst episodes of 30 Rock.) Watched one ab DVD and did the workout and although the information was rather good, the quality was shockingly poor.  We’re not talking boom mikes entering the frame ––...
So fun to teach a class for an old friend today at the Lotus. I knew that NYC student and friend and editor/publisher D was coming so I blended in some Kirk Franklin favorites since we long ago discussed our love of his music — it was one of our first conversations — and she actually told him a...
Awoke early this am, and although there were no mangers involved, went off to tend the animals. First, the cat Tula needed to be fed at Val and Clark’s place.  I stayed an extra 20 minutes just so she’d have some human interaction and affection, although I do think she welcomes her vacation ...
√  Beachwalk with Susan & Belle –– spectacular weather √  Drive Susan (and Val) to airport √  Platinum Parking (thanks to new parking permit) √  Moves files and projects upstairs from cottage so I can re-stack & re-organize √  Nap √  Watch remainder of Season 3 of BORED TO DEATH (1/2 complete) √  H...