Category: 24-7 Life lessons from Mom
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You’ve changed, man
By Jay Hiller, April 14, 2024 Photo by Louis Hansel on Unsplash One of my daughter’s friends used to wear a T-shirt I liked a lot. It had a cartoon of a potato talking to a serving of french fries and the caption was “You’ve changed, man.” I’m thinking of that cartoon tonight because of…
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Getting up and out of the dumps
by Jay Hiller, April 7, 2024 Photo by Yoksel 🌿 Zok on Unsplash Yesterday was one of those days where it seemed to take a lot of energy just to be here and not be an unpleasant drag on everyone around me. I felt easily bothered by stuff I knew wasn’t very important. Today I…
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Elevated casual bunions waiting to happen
By Jay Hiller, March 24, 2024 How did we get brainwashed into wearing something like this? Photo by mostafa mahmoudi on Unsplash “What does elevated casual mean?” I texted two separate friends. They were in agreement: high heels. So even though I’ve done this stupid thing before and regretted it, I crammed my feet into…
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Review: Soft Steps, Bright Bounds
A Self Care Journey by Jay Hiller, March 17, 2024 This lovely lovely journal was created by Elena Velasco. A few weeks ago, I was in a meeting in Elena Velasco’s classroom and I noticed some anatomical illustrations of hearts with flowers growing out of them hanging on the walls. After the meeting she showed…
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Never miss leg day and other ways to hedge against catastrophe
by Jay Hiller, March 2, 2024 Photo by Lavi Cella on Unsplash The heading here is, of course, a joke. It’s the one you don’t see coming that’s gonna getcha. Still, I really like a recent Instagram post on an account I follow, Squat University. It’s a video of a police officer who never misses…
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How little we dare….
By Jay Hiller, February 25, 2024 Photo by Elisa Stone on Unsplash Today, I woke up with two conflicting thoughts. One, that my life felt constricting. Two, that I was going to try to stop complaining so much. Of course, I found a work around for the second one. I told my husband about the…
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What does my overflowing closet say about my health?
“Nothing good,” is the short answer. By Jay Hiller, February 8, 2023 Photo by Terri Bleeker on Unsplash “It’s not evil, right?” I asked a friend at work who also likes clothes. We had been discussing my recent slowdown on purchasing clothes, which I called a clothing diet. And just like a food diet, following the restriction…
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Transitions
by Jay Hiller, February 3, 2024 Photo by Lance Asper on Unsplash In yoga asana, the point where a practitioner is most likely to injure herself is in the transition into and out of the pose. I started to write that there are stages of life more full of transition than others. I was going to…
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Be your body’s ally
By Jay Hiller, January 30, 2024 Photo by Tyler Nix on Unsplash I was talking to someone last night who’s at the one year survival point after treatment for leukemia. She said, “Now whenever I eat something that’s not good for me, I apologize to my body.” What she’s been through is more extreme than many…
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Slattern
by Jay Hiller, January 24, 2014 Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash After 12 hours out of the house, I came home and made my breakfast and lunch for tomorrow instead of working out. They say systems are important and making my food ahead of time makes it easier for me to make sure I’m eating well…