Royal, Loving Detachment

today i feel like the Queen or King of Detachment–and seeing as Lordflea is anonymous, I’ll give you both. Here’s the King of Detachment: the Big Guy strikes all negativity that infringes on his inner peace. he’s learned to set boundaries, and you better not step over them, or he’ll … well, he’ll bark at least!…

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the miracle of goal-setting

today i completed the first draft of the nonfiction book i’ve been working on! wheeee!! it feels soooo good to finish something that has taken so long, has meant so much, and shows how important it is to make a goal…and stick to it. i’m elated. feels kind of like this: making goals for myself…

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yoga in buenos aires

here we are in argentina, where a woman is president and people are not that affected by the global economic crunch, i´m told,  but unfortunately the aires in buenos aires (good airs) is NOT buenos…because of the pollution, which in spanish is the more graphic word, contaminacion. here the people are lovely, and i mean not just in…

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ahhh, the moment, the Only Thing Worth Mentioning

hi friends, we’re packing. off to South America tomorrow! wheeeee! I’m excited. Another chance to practice my speak-like-four-year-old Spanish, visit another exotic place on this planet i’ve not been to, and learn more from others. New culture, new food, new music–everything will be new, except for the similarity found around the world–we’re all in the…

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Damage Control!

it never ceases to amaze me how, when you go public, you are apt to either offend, or appear stupid, or both. as long as i can maintain a sense of humor about rattling other people’s cages, i’ll be okay. but boy, was i tested today. apparently someone whom i’ve been speaking very highly about…

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We’re all RICH!

if you just think for a moment–that we’re alive!, breathing, feeling the wind on our faces–we’re rich beyond our wildest imaginations. to have life, to still be breathing and able to “play” this game of life–we are indeed fortunate, and rich rich rich. a lot of people are freaking out these days. job loss, economics,…

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Binky speaks of balance

my hopi indian friend, binky person called yesterday. i’ve spoken of him on lordflea before, about how ironic it is for me, a person who writes and arts, lives in the congested East Coast of America, yet holds true the sacred of all beings in my heart as the most important things to cherish–that binky and…

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oh, and did i mention…?

Here it is, lordflea readers! the FIRST EXCERPT of my new book, “Dharma Brat” a nonfiction narrative, soon to be at your favorite bookseller. As I look up at the constellation Orion, here in my new home in St. Augustine, where we moved after seventeen years in Lackland, I remember that I forgot to tell…

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