Patience 2013

Last year I decided to stop with New Year's Resolutions and to start setting themes. One theme--something to draw all my actions back to. It can be infinitely applied to everything that happens to me and serves as a guide to choices.  Experiences was the theme of 2012--and did I experience!

An extremely brief recap of all the things experienced last year that I can think of if I take 30 seconds:

• Europe for the first time with my roommates + Nhu
• Turkish Baths
• Sailing in Santorini
• Attending an NFL football game
• Designing and building furniture on my own
• Having some of my best friends move to the city
• Learning how to ski correctly
• Hiking with 30lbs on my back
• Sleeping outside in sub-20 degree weather
• Surprising my mom for her 50th birthday
• Showing my dad around NYC for the first time since I moved her and his first time back in 25+ years
• Seeing glaciers in Montana
• Biking around NYC as a main form of commute

After morning practice at the Yoga Agora studio

For 2013 the theme is Patience.

In alignment with that, I have started upping my yoga practices to 2 a week. I love yoga. It's like one big stretching session for me. But sometimes when I think about the fact that class is 1-1.5 hours, I start thinking about all the 'other' things I could be doing instead. So I eventually end up not attending.

When I do end up in class, the 'mindlessness' I experience as I focus on my breathing and asana is so liberating. I'm not thinking about what I'm going to eat, make or do (okay, it does take like 15 mins into practice before my mind is cleared). Living in NYC inherently puts minds into overdrive as the sense are constantly stimulated by the sheer amount of things just happening...all the time.