à la carte spirit by ilona fried
Awareness
Lost and Found
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau While walking in the woods in February, I spotted a few pairs of eye glasses propped on trail markers and, in one case, fancifully placed atop a huge mushroom. I snapped photos and wondered if their owners would spot them on subsequent … Continue reading
New in 2016: My Articles on The Wisdom Daily
In the vast, ever expanding and always changing universe that is the Internet, it can be challenging for writers and readers to find a place to participate, let alone a place to call home. That’s why so many people create their own blogs, their own slivers of cyberspace on which to set up a base camp and, … Continue reading
Awareness Through Mechanics: Car Inspection as Feldenkrais Lesson
The old me, the pre-Feldenkrais me, might have blown a gasket during my car inspection adventure and, instead, called it a “fiasco”. To recap: my Subaru Forester failed the emission test in Massachusetts as I anticipated it would. After performing a diagnostic smoke test, the garage replaced the catalytic converter and gas cap. I drove off to log 150 miles … Continue reading
A Year Ends. Thoughts on Learning and Possibility.
In a calendar-centric culture, our society has a habit of reviewing the preceding twelve months. We devise lists of “bests and worsts”. We extract lessons and meaning or focus on highlights or numbers. We might evaluate or rank. To cultivate a different habit, I am going to attempt to avoid doing those things in this year-end post. … Continue reading
Watching Soccer Through a Feldenkrais Frame
If I think of achievement principally, I find that some part of myself is always left out. – Moshe Feldenkrais, Amherst Training If Moshe Feldenkrais hadn’t nearly destroyed his knee in a soccer match as a young man, or if he had chosen risky surgery to repair it, he wouldn’t have developed his groundbreaking method that allowed him … Continue reading
à la carte spirit by ilona fried 
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