Archive: March, 2011

A Client’s Poem

March 29th, 2011 3 comments

Today’s post is a poem a client wrote and sent to me. I asked if I could blog it. He said, “Yes, but please don’t include my name.”

Here it is…

Morning practice

I wake up, groggy and confused

Is it really time to get up?

I don’t want to

I turn over and sigh

When I get out of bed I have to be mindful

It always takes me a few minutes

The long process of coming out of hibernation

I rise and dress; go to the bathroom

I take my mat and my bench

and assume the position

I breathe in, and calm my body

I breathe out and smile

I try to be mindful first thing in the morning

For at least 10 minutes

Its not as easy as it sounds

Your body plays tricks on you

My forehead starts to itch, or I feel like I need to use the bathroom

Even though I just did

These things used to annoy me

Why are you fighting me, mind?

Now though, they just make me smile

I smile at the things my mind throws in my way

And I smile at myself

I know there is no fight here, except the one that I start

Baby You Can Drive My Site

March 7th, 2011 2 comments

I have a new website.

It has these really cool sliding thingies.

“Beep beep, beep beep, YEAH!”

The major new items at my new home page are:

What’s New – info and links about my latest books and projects

In Progress – projects in motion

Mailing List – sign up to get an occasional newsletter from me

It all started one year ago, with an email from Tom Fuertes. Tom wrote to request an inscribed copy of Elements of Poker. Then he made an offer I’d’ve been a fool to refuse.

Tom described himself as a “nerd barterer.” He offered a website upgrade in exchange for poker coaching. My site was old and clunky and in much need of modernization. Tom was young and spunky and ready to go full-time with poker. And now, one year later, Tom is playing poker for a living, and I love my new website. So at least one of us has been relieved from suffering.

Wendelin Montciel is known to most of the world as the artist who did the drawings for my “The Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightenment” series. She also designed the book cover for “A Rubber Band Story and Other Poker Tales” which you can see at the new In Progress pane.  And she provided much aesthetic oversight to my new website. Je t’aime bien, Wendelin!

Please feel free to come on by and kick the tires and look under the hood and take it for a spin, but please, whatever you do, don’t text and drive.

www.tommyangelo.com