3/26/26 Robbed/Robed

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We were robbed this week. 

Ha! Which now as I write that I see/hear within the word “robbed,” “robed”—like a bath robe, post-shower (see image). 

(My partner & I were “robbed” this week of “a lot”, possibly even including a life dream. I’ll tell more of the story down the line, as for now, I’m taking this turn of events a step at a time. Ps, no one is hurt/all is well/what is of real value remains intact.)

This phrase: wear the world like a loose garment came to my aid a few weeks back when I found myself internally squirming about a group I’m a member of. Background story: I have an old mantra in my head that goes, “I don’t join groups…i don’t want to lose my individuality.” 

Insert the famous Groucho Marx quote
, “
I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.”

But on a serious note, that slight internal reminder/shift greatly helped ease how I feel about my position in a group. It allows me to not isolate as a solitary individual, nor lose myself in the “group think” of a crowd, but rather take a Goldilocks sort of position in the middle where I can take from the group what works for me, and the rest can come from my Self. Makes me think of two words:

1. equanimity 
2. unbothered 

(Perhaps more on that at a later date. Or, just sit with the energy of these words.)

I tell the above story with many of you in mind and heart. This week I saw some of you in my home office for sessions and I also heard from you over text/emails. In my experience, several of us are still experiencing big swings within our life circumstances. Jobs, over. Significant relationships, done. Money, lost. Pets, passing. And also, big dreams, manifested. New & better jobs, found. Income, up. Babies, born. Marriages, united. 

With all of this in mind, these are the thoughts occurring to me: 

If I am overly emotionally attached to the “highs,” I will be equally attached to the “lows.” 

So, I come here with no answers, just with words, ideas & insights that are helping me human. One last thing is sticking in my bonnet before I sign off:

It feels like an appropriate time to begin to practice embodying the energy of such a sentiment as our momentum out of an old world and into a new, continues. And perhaps accelerates as AI technology continues to make quick and sweeping changes to our lives. Knowhatimsayin? Youpickingupwhatimputtingdown? 

Good time to revisit the yogic principle of Aparigraha. If you’re not familiar, but curious, look into it. 

I hope even a molecule of this is useful to any number of you, as it is for me. 

Together. Onward & Inward. 

Ek 

ps, see some of you soon:

TODAY, 3 PM FLOW, and…

also TODAY, 4:30 pm Flow & Chill at Flow Yoga North Loop (5501N Lamar Blvd) (Th March 26th)

(**always check Flow Yoga North Loop & Westgate online class schedules for last minute schedule changes. Also, last minute sub opportunities arrive throughout the week that I cover).

Because even the Word Obstacle is an Obstacle, Alison Luterman

Try to love everything that gets in your way:
The Chinese women in flowered bathing caps
murmuring together in Mandarin doing leg exercises in your lane
while you execute thirty-six furious laps,
one for every item on your to-do list.
The heavy-bellied man who goes thrashing through the water
like a horse with a harpoon stuck in its side and
whose breathless tsunamis rock you from your course.
Teachers all. Learn to be small
and swim past obstacles like a minnow,
without grudges or memory. Dart
toward your goal, sperm to egg. Thinking, Obstacle,
is another obstacle. Try to love the teenage girl
lounging against the ladder, showing off her new tattoo:
Cette vie est la mienne, This life is mine,
in thick blue-black letters on her ivory instep.
Be glad she’ll have that to look at the rest of her life, and
keep going. Swim by an uncle
in the lane next to yours who is teaching his nephew
how to hold his breath underwater,
even though kids aren’t supposed
to be in the pool at this hour. Someday,
years from now, this boy
who is kicking and flailing in the exact place
you want to touch and turn
may be a young man at a wedding on a boat,
raising his champagne glass in a toast
when a huge wave hits, washing everyone overboard.
He’ll come up coughing and spitting like he is now,
but he’ll come up like a cork,
alive. So your moment
of impatience must bow in service to the larger story,
because if something is in your way, it is
going your way, the way
of all beings: toward darkness, toward light.