Wind And Waves

Our neighbors, Pilar and Diego, held a very successful lemonade stand today (over $20!)
As they sold Lemonade, a little further down the sidewalk, people from our neighborhood who had wandered out of their houses towards the stand ,collected and got to know each other. I’ve got some great neighbors! What a fun event………..a Lemonade stand can be!

My Knee surgery (Anterior Cruciate Ligament in my knee was reconstructed using arthroscopy surgery) went well! No big deal. To me? Yes, huge deal! But to the hospital, they do this surgery on 3 or 4 patients a day. I was glad everything went smoothly, it was done on April fools day and was Dr. Gladu’s very last surgery before he went on a 4 month break. I was a little nervous.
My mom stayed with me during surgery and then took me up to her house in the mountains to heal. It kinda scares me how I was able to spend 8 days up at her house, removed from my life, in the middle of nowhere (so quiet), watching movies, reading, www.’ng, conversing with her and some of her violin students………. and have no feelings of boredom or desire to get back into the swing of things….whatsoever! It turned out to be a very nice vacation, even though my knee hurt like hell!

Here I am on the cpm machine, which puts my knee in motion so it doesn’t get stiff. Should I really be using this thing? Don’t know exactly, many studies have shown that after 6 weeks it doesn’t matter if you used the machine or not. At least it gives the patient and sense that they are doing something to heal themselves! I didn’t use this machine on the acl surgery I had done on my other knee (which healed up no problem) so I’m kinda skeptical.

I’m back at my house in [Read more →]

I just got back from Moab a few hours ago. Walked into my house. Strange to be back………I could have stayed in Moab another few weeks. Its always VERY hard for me to leave Moab. Hmmm. When I got home, I went straight to a yoga class with a teacher whom I really like.
Tomorrow is knee surgery for me, which means no more yoga for awhile. I’m so scared! I think the scariest thing about this surgery is that I know exactly what I’m getting into because I had the same surgery in my other Knee (ACL! I love soccer…..but my body doesn’t) This time though, I’m gonna ask the anesthesiologist to knock me out. Last time I watched the whole surgery on video as they worked. It was a fascinating learning experience but the week afterward when my knee hurt like hell all I could do was imagine the images of them cutting and grinding the inside of my knee.
Yoga tends to stretch you out and open you up emotionally. Some yoga sessions are pretty powerful in that way. At my session today, I couldn’t stop the tears from streaming down my face. As I lay there on my back all I could do was think about what I had seen on my drive home from Moab.
After a hot sunny trip to Moab the drive home surprised us. It was dumping snow! A typical spring storm. Julia and I were laughing because a couple years ago we had done a trip together to Mexico and on our drive back we got stuck in a huge Snowstorm. So thats twice we’ve come back tanned and totally relaxed only to hit a huge snow storm. Such a contrast.
Welcome to Colorado!
Oh Man. I-70 Westbound had a 70 car pile up. We were headed Eastbound so we passed it soon after it happened. Wow. It was shocking to see. Semis jackknifed, cars upside down, under other cars, on top of cars, smashed…….it was horrible. It reminded me of going to the car junkyard with my brother, looking for car parts. I think one of the hardest parts about the scene was it went on and on and on and on. Unreal. The other hardest part of the scene was that I could so easily empathize with all the drivers and passengers. They were probably all going to Moab. No, not really but there were dirt bike trailers in the crash. Their trips have been totally changed, thats for sure. Only 1 person died……….so far as they know….and lots of broken bones. Bless their souls, I hope everyone makes it through this experience okay.

Julia and I came through just after the emergency Vehicles were showing up so as we passed we had the unsettling knowledge that perhaps people were still in their cars, hurt,trapped……whatever.
Sure makes me think how dangerous driving can be and how quickly things can change.
I was excited to write a blog entry today about a fantastically fast moto ride with Fred In Moab, that let my spirit fly……but I think I’ll save that one for another day……..all I can think of tonight is the result of a crash.

I love that word and I love photographing reflections.
I was thinking about it in a slightly different way last night because a movie launched me into a state of reflecting on something had hadn’t thought about, something that easily could have gone by the wayside given more time But there were lessons in it for me to learn that I easily could have missed without reflecting…….or at least it helped me put some pieces together. We are ever changing beings! [Read more →]

I just want to say…….it would make my DAY! if anyone added any comments. I’m so curious whose reading my blog and if you have anything to say! I’m encouraging myself to share with anybody and everybody but for all I know, only two people are reading any of it! Just one little thought of yours or about a subject I’ve written about …….would be such a gift! 🙂

This book came highly recommended and it is great! Its so reassuring reading about a topic I’m sorting out in life but still have a limited structural understanding of.
This book affirms what I know to be true.
“Wonderful lessons about leadership in a very personal story of a relationship between a teacher and a student. It is teaching and storytelling at its best.”
James A Autry, author, Life and Work

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Colorado!
This Saturday felt like summer! Wes and I went on a motorcycle ride up to the mountains. It was incredible. Feels like ages since I’ve gotten on the moto and it felt wonderful. So smooth. Life and worries just slid away and I was immersed in motion and beauty as if it was me.
We found a neat little coffee shop in the mountains and stopped for a chat and a refreshing coffee drink. On the ride back I had my buzz going from the mocha and I had headphones on while Wes was in the back playing d.j for me with the ipod. What a great brother! And trusting to let me drive a fantastic curvy mountain road, high on mocha and great music……………….
Heres a video, from a fellow riding through Europe on his motorcycle. It lightly captures what it feels like to ride to music! VIDEO (if you get a euphoric feeling watching this video…..get a moto and GO!)

And then Sunday it snowed……..all day. This picture was at sunrise…..

Sail forth – steer for the deep waters only,
Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee,
and thou with me,
For we are bound where mariner has not yet
dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
O my brave soul!
O farther farther sail!
O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the
seas of God?
Walt Whitman