Moving On
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Sometimes a girl just needs a little balance. And I’m not talking about tree pose.
What’s most important to me? Managing two blogs badly or sending my work out into the word with polish and panache? I’ll take the polish and panache, thank you very much.
I kept two blogs because I wanted to keep my two lives – my writing life and my yoga life – separate. Yeah. How’d that work out for you, Mimm?
Not too well. How can we keep separate the parts of ourselves that make us whole?
And so I say a fond farewell to Diving with Gems. If you want to keep up with me (and I know you do), you can follow me on my other blog Practically Twisted.
About Me
I love yoga. And I love to write.
After that my passion for these disciplines is such that I find it hard to put in words.
There are joyous moments in teaching when ‘it’ happens. A student has a shift in perspective, moves deeper into her body, feels a new flow of energy.
There are rare moments in writing when the characters take over and the words flow.
I live for those moments.
Growing up in rural Pennsylvania I would have never predicted this life. My friends and I guessed, as young girls in the early ’70′s, that there would be husbands, some kids, split level homes and probably a few shaggy dogs.
I watched Kim and Barbara, Becky and Patty move into their dream lives. And I tried to move into mine. But after college and a very brief marriage I decided I had some things to get out of my system first. I could settle down later – the type of life my friends settled into so easily would still be waiting for me after I had a little adventure.
Many years and adventures later – including ten years in Donegal, Ireland – I have to admit that the choices I made, the path I carved with the tools I was given, has meant the ‘happy family’ will have to wait until my next life. Maybe.
At the end of the day, despite not having what I was told I wanted, I learning to embrace what I believe eludes so many: contentment.
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