Your mind is your superpower. At this year's 165th celebration of the Boat Race, 46-years young Olympian, James Cracknell returns to the Cambridge men's squad to pull at full pressure–proof that championship oarsmen never age. Well rowed all crews.
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Into Monet's Garden At De Young San Francisco
Throughout Claude Monet's career, he remained dedicated to the close observation of nature and his elaborate garden. He spent great energy and expense studying horticulture, consulting with specialists, and commiserating with fellow plant enthusiasts. In his early days at the Pressoir, Monet tended the garden with his children; as his designs became more ambitious, he went on to employ eight gardeners.
Monet's water-lily pond was the most important feature of his garden. Ensuring the crystalline quality of the water and the vibrancy of the lilies required one gardener to skim the pond's surface on a daily basis and dunk the lilies to remove the dust generated by the nearby road. Monet even went as far as to fund the paving of the surrounding roads to prevent dust from accumulating. The pond offered an ever changing reflective surface that captured the color of the lilies, the foliage of the adjacent weeping willows, and the changing effects of the clouds.
In 1914, after his self-imposed two-year break from painting following the death of his second wife, Monet embarked on a new series of water-lily paintings. Marked by gestural brushwork and increasingly larger formats, these works are a bold departure. Many of these compositions lack horizon lines, resulting in often spatially disoriented views. On this same impressive scale, Monet also painted irises, dallies, and agapanthuses growing at the water's edge. All are viewable at the De Young in San Francisco till May 27th.
Monet's water-lily pond was the most important feature of his garden. Ensuring the crystalline quality of the water and the vibrancy of the lilies required one gardener to skim the pond's surface on a daily basis and dunk the lilies to remove the dust generated by the nearby road. Monet even went as far as to fund the paving of the surrounding roads to prevent dust from accumulating. The pond offered an ever changing reflective surface that captured the color of the lilies, the foliage of the adjacent weeping willows, and the changing effects of the clouds.
In 1914, after his self-imposed two-year break from painting following the death of his second wife, Monet embarked on a new series of water-lily paintings. Marked by gestural brushwork and increasingly larger formats, these works are a bold departure. Many of these compositions lack horizon lines, resulting in often spatially disoriented views. On this same impressive scale, Monet also painted irises, dallies, and agapanthuses growing at the water's edge. All are viewable at the De Young in San Francisco till May 27th.
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Addicted To Sweating
Go for it. Take a shot at the big time. If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you will never have a negative thought again. The invisible forces that drive every thought you think and emotion you feel are the habitual patterns of action that shape your life. Can we change habits? Yes, with INTENTION and ENERGY. We can train ourselves to generate energy it takes to create a new set of actions–and with repetition, like building a quadricep, these emotions become your new, consciously designed habits that produce the results you're after. When we create the right set of habits we become more efficient so that we have more energy for all the things that matter.
Goldie Turns Eight
An amazing vibrant boy filled with exuberance, positivity, curiosity, compassion, a sense for fairness, and high-energy. As he heads towards eleven, i will at some point start looking for an elite prep school for him including Ridley College, Upper Canada College, Brentwood College School, and a few in the USA. I am so proud of him.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Sparkling With Energy
The gym is the perfect place for modernizing your self. Your self-discipline will determine the results and it is an excellent way to detach yourself from pressures of work and family life. The Greeks would use gymnasia as places to escape to, usually on the outskirts of a city, to engage not only in exercise but philosophical conversation.
I indulge in my anti-aging cream with a gym membership, but i go there to sweat, not to socialize. Reaching early before sunrise at 5:00 am, i sweat for 2+ hours compulsively each workday training on the Concept II ergometer with a 7600-7700 meters pull in :30 minutes at rate 32-34, next is the notorious 7-mile uphill tempo run on the treadmill modulating the pace up every 5 minutes for :60 minutes, followed by endurance weight training for strengthening quads, back, shoulders and gluteus maximus. Finally, i stretch my limbs in my cool down session and drink some water while leaving the gym with a 100% full-charge of energy and self-confidence.
Health is wealth people. Those of us who grew up wearing uniforms in boarding schools still prefer to look the part of an athletic, sophisticated, upper-class man with wanderlust in his eyes. Rather than dress like a slob, i enjoy wearing colorful clothes that actually fit my physique with swagger and style.
I indulge in my anti-aging cream with a gym membership, but i go there to sweat, not to socialize. Reaching early before sunrise at 5:00 am, i sweat for 2+ hours compulsively each workday training on the Concept II ergometer with a 7600-7700 meters pull in :30 minutes at rate 32-34, next is the notorious 7-mile uphill tempo run on the treadmill modulating the pace up every 5 minutes for :60 minutes, followed by endurance weight training for strengthening quads, back, shoulders and gluteus maximus. Finally, i stretch my limbs in my cool down session and drink some water while leaving the gym with a 100% full-charge of energy and self-confidence.
Health is wealth people. Those of us who grew up wearing uniforms in boarding schools still prefer to look the part of an athletic, sophisticated, upper-class man with wanderlust in his eyes. Rather than dress like a slob, i enjoy wearing colorful clothes that actually fit my physique with swagger and style.
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Listening Brings Truth
Listen to your life as it whispers to you. How often do we listen to ourselves? That small voice that speaks the truth. And if we did, what might we learn? Where might it lead us?
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