KayBellKnitter

has yoga on the brain



I'm doing 26 things
 

KayBellKnitter's Life List

  1. 1. Complete 200hr yoga teacher training
    9 entries . 23 cheers
    2 people
  2. 2. walk 10,000 steps a day
    15 entries . 27 cheers
    152 people
  3. 3. keep a gratitude journal
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    162 people
  4. 4. design and knit a hooded sweater
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    1 person
  5. 5. keep a commonplace book
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    7 people
  6. 6. finish all of my homework for knitting class
    3 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. save the polar bears
    4 entries . 11 cheers
    18 people
  8. 8. learn feng shui
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    92 people
  9. 9. give a damn
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    21 people
  10. 10. Learn how to cook 10 good vegetarian meals
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    10 people
  11. 11. organize my closet
    3 entries . 6 cheers
    294 people
  12. 12. practice yoga daily
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    346 people
  13. 13. Do something creative every day
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    219 people
  14. 14. make a whole quilt, start to finish, for the bedroom.
    4 cheers
    5 people
  15. 15. plant a lavender garden
    2 entries . 7 cheers
    2 people
  16. 16. Identify and Rid Myself of 43 Items of Überclutter
    6 entries . 4 cheers
    23 people
  17. 17. fold 1000 origami cranes
    5 cheers
    28 people
  18. 18. weave in my studio for at least two hours a week
    9 cheers
    2 people
  19. 19. read 43 classics
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    4 people
  20. 20. Help my brain (calming tidy environment, new learning, new physical activities, diet, fish oil, social connections, positive attitude / love+gratitude, meditation)
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    2 people
  21. 21. visit every Japanese garden in Washington state
    5 cheers
    1 person
  22. 22. find all those objects that have gone missing
    3 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. Finish knitting current sweater
    3 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  24. 24. Get a tattoo to celebrate finishing yoga teacher training
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  25. 25. Stop holding on to the things that clutter my home and my life
    4 cheers
    26 people
  26. 26. knit the Rose of England tablecloth
    1 person

How I did it
How to be able to stand in tree pose for 60 seconds on each side
It took me
1 year
It made me
Balanced.


How to do the A-Z author challenge
It took me
2 years
It made me
feel well-read


Recent entries
Get a tattoo to celebrate finishing yoga teacher training
Understated 5 days ago

I’m thinking it will be a little vine of flowers twining along the outer edge of my foot. Something that would show in yoga class, but also something easily covered.



Complete 200hr yoga teacher training (read all 9 entries…)
Turned in 5 days ago

all of my homework on 11/11. Another one of those auspicious dates, I think (similar to the date that I signed up for the course). I have to do a marathon make-up session for three classes that I missed. And then I will graduate on November 19!!!!

I started a 500-hour training this month. It seemed like the best next step.



Do the 2009 TBR challenge (read all 7 entries…)
Victory lap! 1 month ago

My TBR Lite List, completely crossed off:
1. A.R. Ammons, Garbage

2. Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

3. Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools

4. John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath

5. Mary Roach, Stiff

6. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

I finished Garbage by A.R. Ammons on October 12. It’s a book-length poem, all written in couplets. It’s about literal garbage (what goes into the landfill) but also about the author’s aging, and more broadly about what at first we value in adulthood and then don’t value anymore as we get older. (Things that are not valued any longer are: garbage.)

The book is short but it too me a loooong time to read. The couplet style, and also the author’s strange punctuation (nary a period in sight, colons sprinkled liberally throughout, the overall effect being that every chapter was one long run-on sentence) were always getting in the way, for me.



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