It's been awhile since my last blog entry. Life has been... both simultaneously break neck and full of deep reflection. Writing seems like a luxury these days. What's going on? I am realizing that a lot of what is going on lately is learning about working without attachment to outcome, doing the work for the work's sake, just because you know it is work that is good and needs to be done. It is not lost on me that whenever I am overly concerned with the outcome of some project, class or idea, that the result often falls short, leaving me with a feeling of disappointment or failure. This is usually followed by a period of delight after I decide to let go of my attachment to outcome, for
I've always been fascinated by the relationship between language and thought. I wrote a 300 word essay in first year university English on it. It attempted to explore the interplay between thought and language, how one impacts the other and which came first, the chicken or the egg. My prof congratulated me on my ambitiousness but suggested that the topic was probably better suited to a graduate thesis paper than a first year writing course. My interest in this area has not waned over the years. When I was in my early 20's and starting to experiment with yoga, I practiced at home, from a book. I had gone to a couple of Kundalini yoga classes in Vancouver but other than that, it was books
