Keep your core tight.

Keeping my core tight... earlier that same day. Khumbu Valley, Nepal.
Keeping my core tight... earlier that same day. Khumbu Valley, Nepal.

"Keep your core tight." Garrett said to me as we were on the second day of our decent from Mount Everest Base Camp. His words were in reference to my physical being – brainstorming ways to go downhill without killing my knees.

What he didn't know, is those words came at a time when my own thoughts were bouncing around the ideas of sticking to my own moral's, my own heart. To me. Each of us has a different path to follow in life; and what works for one doesn't necessarily work for another.  We only know what is best for ourselves. What rings true and pure to our hearts – and to follow this isn't always the easiest path, but it is the truest.

I  think of this often as I'm walking or walking the dogs – keep my core tight, keeping my posture up, relieve the lower back pain...but it also reminds me of staying true to myself. Follow what I believe in. Do what makes my heart happy.

Keep your core tight.


Rickshaw driver, in Delhi (not Jaipur).

I'm Sorry madam for the bumps [in the road]...

Rickshaw driver, in Delhi (not Jaipur).
Rickshaw driver, in Delhi (not Jaipur).

"I'm Sorry madam for the bumps [in the road] but they are not my fault."

Rickshaw driver in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

 

 


Behind every fear..

In his play Edmond, playwright David Mamet as the main character observed, “behind every fear there is a wish”.

– Found in a journal that i am transcribing for my Dad.


Thinking about tomorrow is losing today

"Thinking about tomorrow is losing today"
- La Lita Gi, at the Phool Chatti Ashram, north of Rishikesh, India

We will probably be competing!

"We will probably be competing!"

– My friend Sabine in Delhi when I told her to wake me she can hear me snoring from the other room.


Be happy anyway

"Be happy anyway"
– said Patrick at the full moon meditation in Delhi when talking about how to deal with bad things in life. It's not that you don't react but to be happy anyway.