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June = Motorcycle Trip Month

June 8th, 2010 · La Vida

And it has started off with a bang! So far, I seemed to have planned my months perfectly (as far as focusing on a subject each month)

Cubicleworld

I was getting up to my ears in financial pod-casts, leaps, and options and commodities, Gold baby gold……the month ended with a Flare of wild volatility in the market.  Greece was the talk and then many things I listened to say….its going to happen to us. California is in huge debt and Illinois is in even worse debt, (they aren’t even writing “IOU’s at this point.) The Euro hit a record low of $1.20. (Lets go to Europe baby!)  I was checking stocks everyday and trying to figure what the heck was going on.  Just as I began to understand that when people get nervous about the market, they pull out of their stocks and invest in gold.  Because of inflation gold is the safe bet (cash is worthless).  Then!… gold started to drop! Why?  People are pulling out completely (liquidating) opting for cash! the very thing I understood to be worthless. Hmmm. Lots and lots to learn.

New laws are affecting things and then of course the tragic BP spill is constantly in the background causing a lot of anxiety for everyone.  I feel it, because after spending days and days at sea and being fascinated by the life out there so far from shore, dolphins playing along the bow, its seems tragic to know that many of these magical creatures are going to be killed from this.  So Sad.

And so, June arrived and along with it SUMMER! and……..for me, MOTO Month!!

I took Friday off, creating a LONG weekend and did a moto trip on the Scenic San Juan Skyway and found out that………..All is okay in the world. In fact, we live in paradise.  Did you know?

Just South of Telluride

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Moods

June 3rd, 2010 · La Vida

“This being human is a guest house.  Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meaness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.  Welcome and attend them all: Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight”

~Rumi

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Yoga..Motorcycling…Surfing

May 17th, 2010 · La Vida

Its all the same!! And truly fantastic ~


YIIIPEEE!!

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Unsettled? Me?…No!

May 14th, 2010 · La Vida

Guess what. I think I’m unsettled.  I can just hear all my good friends chuckling.  When am I ever not unsettled, is really the question.   At least I’m never bored, I’m mostly passionate, a bit scattered, generally happy and sometimes overwhelmed…

There is So much to learn in life!!!!

I’ve been dedicating each month this year to one of  the various things that I think about all the time but never quite put as much energy/focus/time into as I would like.  If I’ve had this thing on one of my “Lists”  (I am the list queen) repeatedly in the last 2 years, then I turn it into something to focus on for  one of the 12 months of 2010.

Last month (April) was Yoga month.  Wow.  Here again I’ve been humbled at how many dedicated folks there are out there, how much understanding I don’t have of Kinesthetic and body awareness and how each movement affects your pshycologly.   I feel like a get a new profound understanding of the mantra “Everything is connected’ each yoga session.    For the month of April, my body was constantly yoga-tized and felt absolutely  fabulous.  Its been amazing to be applying a new life philosophy to physical challenges than the one I’ve lived my entire life.  My old philosophy, No pain no gain…run, run, run harder.  If your not in pain, your not going to get better.  I dreaded soccer practice.  The new philosophy I am playing with is: Understanding, awareness and compassion acceptance and curiosity.  And I would argue, I’m improving more than I did at soccer.

More importantly, I’m learning a ton and experiencing myself differently in the world.   More confidently, (something I imagine I will forever be seeking)   In the Yoga month, with sessions nearly every day, I can honestly say I never dreaded a yoga a single session.  Working them into my schedule had me doing logistical headstands.  Gosh. I could actually write a ton about this and in fact would love to dedicate not only a month but an entire Year to my yoga study.  Seriously.  And this feeling is what leads to feeling unsettled.  I feel like  I can’t……do this because I’ve got so many other interests!

This month is investment month.  Holy Cow so much to learn!!!

I’ve set up an account through ScotTrade and invested in Oil!  I went to a RichDadPoorDad seminar and learned all about the MacD indicator.  I’ve spent two Saturdays and a couple week days with my “investor Mentor” whom I feel lucky to have met at Einstein bagels.

He has kindly agreed to teach me what he knows (which as a lawyer, real estate broker, Entrepreneur and successful (currently) investor) Is a lot!

He’s got a brash way about him that I find challenging not to react to, (I have thin skin after all) He describes the Tattered Cover in Denver as a bookstore for the hippity, dippity crowd of vegan, tree hugging do-rights.

All this aside, he has kindly and graciously spent hours with me, explaining the basics, giving me books on Tape, allowing me to view all the details of his impressive portfolio, How to Cd’s, shareholders meetings,doing a three way call with a broker…… and answering my spontaneous random questions at all times of the day.

Wow.  Its been great and I consider myself very lucky to be living in the sunshine,mountains and comfort of Colorado.

Then my fellow English teacher in Mexico,who is traveling the world writes:

I love it here in Ukraine so much, the people are alcoholic and fragile, inscrutable and fascinating, the women immortal in their precipitous heels looking like the prettiest and most graceful fawns ever born, Cyrillic is most funny when translated to the nearest visual English equivalent, there are dishes called fat with garlic, and the metros are decorated alternately like looking up a lady’s crinoline or a disco-ballroom.
And I want to put on my goals and learning’s and money earning on hold and head off into the terrain of different cultures,lands and peoples.

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Reading on the Cliffs

May 12th, 2010 · La Vida

One of my very favorite things to do is;  ride my motorcycle up to Golden, hike up to the cliffs, do yoga on the mesa, then perch myself on a rock with my feet dangling from the edge, the sun warming me to the core, and absorb the art of wordsmiths.

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Sunny Sunday Ride

May 11th, 2010 · La Vida

My Dad and I set out for a motorcycle ride early Sunday Am.  To our delight, it was a beautiful warm sunny Colorado day!  Especially enjoyable because of a forecast of snow later in the week.  We met at his house and then roared up to a sunny coffee shop in Golden to enjoy a cup of coffee and breakfast before heading up into the mountains.  At the coffee shop, we ran into my Dad’s boss and his family  We sipped our coffee and visited with them and got to know their cute little girls  who were all dressed up in pretty pink dresses for Mothers Day.  While we were chatting with them, I was glancing around and when my eyes set on a familiar face my heart leaped out of my chest….. [Read more →]

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Delicious

May 4th, 2010 · La Vida

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April 21st, 2010 · La Vida

Here is a company from Great Britain that is really inspiring.  I’ve never heard of these smoothies before but apparently they are quite popular.  Check out the U-tube video to listen to their philosophy.  Its inspiring!  Their company is a “green” company but according to the owner, its not because it could drive sales up but because he wants people to bring themselves to work, their care and concerns about the environment and be in integrity with what they do all day.  He wanted to be surrounded by passionate people, who care about these things!   This is a major motivation I have in my desire to start a business…….create a little world within a world that has your ideals and attracts people who have the same!

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Fresh

April 21st, 2010 · La Vida

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This time last year……

April 17th, 2010 · La Vida

I was exploring, San Cristobol De Las Casas, a town in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.   The array and spectrum of experience that are woven together, shaping the lives of each individual each individual on this planet, continually amazes me!    To live this woman’s life would be so far from anything I’ve ever experienced , that Its difficult to even imagine.

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