Tag: friendship
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Grape Leaves
Welcome to Sutra a Day. Yesterday, I sat in a Lebanese restaurant in south Milwaukee with an old friend. I’ve been friends with this person for 25 years now, although not consistently. In our early twenties, we were both on the fringes of a hip and edgy group of waiters, waitresses, comics, models, possible future…
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Insatiable
Welcome to Sutra a Day. Last night, I went climbing with my friend S. Climbing with her is always an adventure, and not because it’s climbing. Beyond navigating color-coded routes on brownish gray walls in a gym filled with adolescents, hanging by ones fingertips, inhaling chalk dust, and the elation of solving a problem by…
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Opportunities for Growth
On Sundays, yoga teacher training happens in an old renovated feed mill. The studio is on the second floor and there is a wooden perimeter balcony that overlooks the airy, brick and glass bounded central space which is often used for indoor markets, weddings, and events. I arrived early yesterday, bought a cup of coffee…
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Holding On
Last weekend, we had a break from yoga school. It was Thanksgiving weekend, or, as I call it – Gratitude Day. Thanksgiving is so historically problematic and being from a sort of imploded and disconnected family, the traditions haven’t felt meaningful to me in a long time, if they ever did. So, I’m okay with…
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