Category: 24-7 Life lessons from Mom
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Want a better life? Walk if you’re able.
by Jay Hiller, August 4, 2023 Photo by Arturo Castaneyra on Unsplash At noon yesterday in Austin it was over a hundred degrees and I had a lunch appointment at a restaurant half a mile from my office, a distance I would walk without thinking twice if the weather were better. I decided to walk,…
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What are regrets for?
By Jay Hiller, July 20, 2023 The sentiment on this bracelet is well-meaning. I don’t find it helpful. Photo by Hailey Moeller on Unsplash A few years ago, in one of those moments when you’re waiting for yoga class to start, I was talking to a student who was more than 20 years older than…
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A display of advanced yoga from a novice practicioner
By Jay Hiller, July 18, 2023 Photo by Daniele Franchi on Unsplash I wasn’t expecting much this morning. I had three classes scheduled and less time scheduled in between them than I really liked. Before my first class, a stand up paddleboard yoga class, I waited idly on the dock and half listened to the…
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What if locust pose actually is the answer to everything?
By Jay Hiller, July 12, 2023 It’s a long story why I don’t have a picture to illustrate locust pose. This guy’s cute? Photo by Heiko Haller on Unsplash I’ve been paying a lot of attention to locust pose for about two years now, mainly because a well-known yoga teacher I follow, Jason Crandell likes…
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My bottle of cheap hair conditioner is almost empty or summer doesn’t last forever
by Jay Hiller, July 4, 2023 Photo by Joan Tran on Unsplash I’ve been swimming a lot this summer. To keep my hair color from fading, before I swim I get it completely wet in the shower and then I saturate it with cheap creme rinse and put on a cap. The bottle’s almost empty…
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Morning Quarry Swim
By Jay Hiller, June 30, 2023 Photo by Christopher Coronado, Lifetime Fitness website My husband likes movie quotes. “I’ll take you someplace you’ve never been before,” he said the other day. (Do you know what movie that’s from?) I knew where we were going. He went about a week ago after clearing brush for a…
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First kickball game
By Jay Hiller, June 12, 2023 Photo by Valeriia Miller on Unsplash The story of my first kickball game, might be the story of why for a long time, I thought of myself as someone who didn’t like to exercise. My family lived in Bogotá, Colombia for most of my first 4 years of elementary…
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What does this pain mean?
By Jay Hiller, June 6, 2023 Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Many years ago, when I had small children, my back hurt frequently and a lot. I got into the habit of thinking of myself as fragile and easily injured. It turned out that my back was hurting because I was spending hours holding…
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Make it a great day!
By Jay Hiller, June 5, 2023 Photo by Jorge Vasconez on Unsplash On November 1, 2022, discouraged and ticked off, I pulled a notebook out of my purse and wrote “Things that make this a bad day.” Then I listed four things, all of them pretty bad,. They still seem bad looking back at them…
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A bathing suit with me at all times
By Jay Hiller, June 5, 2023 You can never have too many bathing suits. Photo by Malik Skydsgaard on Unsplash “And when you mean, with you, you don’t just mean in the same building, but you don’t know where it is?” my husband asked. I’ve had a series of locker room mishaps since I joined…