This Sunday!

Felt like taking a moody, existentially angsty, profoundly self-centered selfie. Enjoy. #theartiste

Who does not need help with tension?

A little animation with the help of AI #midjourney

Is your body uncomfortable when you meditate? Do you experience tightness or holding in your neck, shoulders or back? Or perhaps you just want to explore the physical aspect of meditation more fully? This workshop offers practical instruction on how to release habitual patterns of tension.

Adulting is a lot. Let’s practice being human.
If life feels a bit much with career shifts, changing relationships, and too many screens, you’re not alone.

This is just the beginning. Let’s move with change together.

With a little help from AI

Now he’s into going to secret missions to “visit” the neighbors, or so I think (they are secret after all), and always comes home licking his lips. Yesterday’s find? Sweet breadsticks. Just like his mama: carb-obsessed. I can’t even be mad. #myolddog

A morning stroll with a stop a the local store to get some needed supplies and some totally unneeded pastries for a second breakfast #lifesucks

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That room is also virtual :) my real room is not ready for a public audience … yet

I just wanted to see if a piece of furniture would fit. A normal person would grab a tape measure. I asked ChatGPT to make a 3D model, converted it to USDZ, and placed it in my room with the Vision Pro.
By the time I was done, the item was sold out. #overcomplicating

Let’s get some work done #sacrifices

No Amazon Prime either, but there’s this one spot where, if I order lunch, it beats me to the door. Today another one of those moment (different place): delivery in under 10 minutes, handed off by a delightfully cheerful young woman. There’s still hope: not everything moves at the tranquilo pace.

Friend: reorganizes the whole house
Me: admiring my Leaning Tower of Pisa solar light like it’s fine art.

So now I live in an enchanted garden, but a carry on has “disappeared” with needed cables, computer accessories and documents. Then yesterday a storm kicked the shutters wide open, blowing around stuff left on the deck and shaking every plant and tree in the yard. Eduardo? Slept through it all.

So yes, I’m delighted this abomination is finally being exposed for what it always was: human misery packaged as prime-time entertainment and peddled as “health”. END OF RANT

It wasn’t “tough love,” it was televised abuse. And the cultural fallout—cementing toxic stereotypes about fat people, feeding society’s obsession with body shaming—was nothing short of poisonous.

The so-called “experts” (doctors, trainers, whoever) oozed smug cruelty. And that one female trainer? Downright revolting. The entire concept was grotesque: humiliating vulnerable people, wrecking their health, and shredding their dignity, all for ratings and cash.

I’m watching the documentary on The Biggest Loser and I feel gloriously vindicated. I always loathed it. Never managed a full episode (just snippets here and there) but even those were enough to make my skin crawl. ..

We hope to see you on Sunday. We also hope the video did not get all cropped up #newbie #NYC #meditation

📿 Can You Be Mindful at Happy Hour? Finding quiet amidst the storm of life

What is the actual practice? Being with things as they are. Not affecting airs to appear spiritual but meeting this moment in its realest, rawest, most authentic state.

New writing now live:
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Ta-da! We’re not entirely sure how this works, but we’re happy to be here. Thanks for your patience as we figure it out!
See you Sunday?

NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social

"We represent a broad coalition of Buddhists from multiple traditions and lineages and with differing political opinions—radical, progressive, liberal, centrist, and conservative—who share the common goal of ensuring democracy’s survival".

Another masterpiece for your delight #keepithumble

Not even wealth is saving Americans from dying at rates seen among some of the poorest Europeans Experts said a new study of wealth and mortality in middle-aged and older adults points to deep-rooted health risks in the U.S.

Fifty years ago, life expectancy in the U.S. and wealthy European countries was relatively similar.

That began to change around 1980. As European life expectancy steadily increased, the U.S. struggled to keep pace — and its life expectancy even began declining in 2014.

This is Eduardo #AdoptaEduardo