To see the reason I am blogging about this short animation of the diaphragm and rib cage in action, check out the view from underneath that begins at :51. See the holes? Here’s what the voice over says… “As seen from below, we get a sense of the full range of motion of the diaphragm
Gonnagowalkin Look up and around Gonnagowalkin And notice the ground Gonnagowalkin Stepping and breathing Gonnagowalkin Bridle the seething Gonnagowalkin And sit by the creek Gonnagowalkin Seems the sky sprung a leak Gonnagowalkin Watch myself blinking Gonnagowalkin Gaze at my thinking Gonnagowalkin With trees in a puddle Gonnagowalkin With selfs in a huddle Gonnagowalkin And sit
My first year as an altar boy, the masses were in Latin. It took me a long time to learn all the words. I was very proud to have done it and thereby earned the right to be an altar boy. And I was definitely going to be a priest when I grew up. My
My new goal for the new year is to not set any goals. So far so good. I’ve been up for two hours, and I have not set a single goal yet. Except … Damn! … about 5 minutes ago, I set a goal of writing a blog post this morning. Wow, this living-in-the-moment thing
I’ve had many years when this time of year was the worst time of the year for me. Especially from 1990 to 1997. Those were the first seven years of my poker-playing career. I went broke in December every year. Around 1993, I noticed the pattern, vowing to be careful when the trees went bare.
The Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightenment (EPTPE) is a poker video series I made with Wayne Lively and Rob Cole. It’s about making your A-game better and playing your A-game more often. Today I launched a web page that contains many words by me about the series, plus all sorts of goodies: • The music
“I started paying attention to my breathing and it made everything worse.”
The meaning of “reconcile” in play here is “to make consistent or congruous.” In other words… How can someone walk the path of harmlessness if it has poker tables on it? Let’s say there’s a guy who plays poker, and he starts meditating every morning and doing mindfulness stuff all day long and reading about
If playing poker and coaching poker and writing about poker don’t work out for me, I think I could get a job as a wildlife photographer. As my resume, I would submit the spectacular sequence of photographs you are about to see. To be an expert in this field, you must have incredible patience. You
