I am passionate about yoga! Iyengar Yoga to be specific, a form of hatha yoga. I am passionate about it because everything in me, in my body says, “yes!” to the forms yoga employs. I love the stretching and the challenge, and then the delight in the things my body can do—I am amazed… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Ruth Buckingham
On a Day when the Wind is Perfect
On a day when the wind is perfect The sail just needs to open And the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. ~Rumi Today is such a day to begin. I guess we could all say we are beginning—beginning the next phase of our life, beginning… Continue Reading
Taking Action
Do you save notes and pieces of writing that inspire you or have immediate impact, kept aside for a ‘rainy day’ or ‘just in case?’ Recently, looking through my file of such papers I came across this piece, a quote from Winston Churchill. “They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided,… Continue Reading
Real Friendship
“For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.” Kahlil Gibran I think it was the word “kill” that made this quote from the 70’s stick in my mind when I first read it. The image is so graphic so final—not the… Continue Reading
Pressure – what do we do when we feel it?
There’s the pressure from outside, when you have to make a decision, or you need to get to work on time. And there’s the pressure from inside, perhaps you need to speak up to right a wrong, or have a difficult conversation, or write an article. How do we let that pressure in and through… Continue Reading