An Zimmern

by Friedrich Hoelderlin

Die Linien des Lebens sind verschieden,
Wie Wege sind, und wie der Berge Grenzen.
Was hier wir sind, kann dort ein Gott ergänzen
Mit Harmonien und ewigem Lohn und Frieden.

ROOMS TO

 The lines of life are different
 What ways are, and how the mountains boundaries.
 What here we are, there can complement a God
 With harmonies and eternal reward and peace.

Life almost always takes different turns than expected or planned. 

We create our lives, our homes, our spaces 

and then find out at some point

that the same familiar door opens into a different room.

It remains the challenge to enter with our hearts 

and make the unknown familiar again 

and into our own.

So here I am - blogging now... 

I finally got around setting up my Twitter account and I have discovered the  highly enjoyable social component of Instagram besides just using the app to edit pictures ;)

Both apps offer some serious competition to the omnipresent world of Facebook, but let's face it, Facebook is still the most convenient tool of self-delusion and self-promotion...

So, blogging now is just really the next step to fulfill my social obligations to share some more of my inside world with the outside world.

I will do it gladly, reluctantly, vehemently and sometimes wonderingly... nothing is as cathartic as writing.

A few years ago I ran a blog on Yoga Journal following Judith Lasater's book "A Year Of Living Your Yoga - Daily Practices To Shape Your Life" where I shared experiences that got triggered, excavated & remembered while reading Judith's daily entries, that have definitely shaped my life. Being an active Yoga instructor and avid Yoga practitioner at the time, I thought it was only prudent to live my yoga as well and be honest about it. As teachers were are often time revered as gods/goddesses and despite my yoga name being 'YogaDea' I was (and still am) rather human with plenty of flaws and dark sides to my personality to contend with. "Issues" as society might want to call it. [insert your choice of humor here]

It looks like YJ is under construction right now (at least the Community UI is) so I will try later to gain access to my blog entries there. I wouldn't mind meeting my younger self again and see where I'm at now. Perspective is often times what we need most to heal and move on.

Besides practice, of course. Persistence, patience and practice, practice, practice...