Yoga With Kelly

Last week I spent the Thanksgiving holiday with my immediate family, at my parent's homestead out in the sticks. It is a quiet place to get away for the weekend to. It was spent with family, engorged in good food, then falling in and out of naps followed by movies. It was a lovely time. As the holiday passed I began to get more into the Christmas spirit... As I watched everyone else put up their decorations and trees, I longed for getting my own decorations in order. The Christmas tree was up, but bare because the garland did fit around it. This year I have a new tree and it's taller than my old one, so the garland was too short... I had plans to get more garland this weekend, but for a whole week my bare tree stood half decorated and mocking me. However it is now decorated and looks grand in my living room, surrounded by the other decorations. The smell of Christmas trees filled my living room as I spent time placing each decoration and ornament in the perfect position, moving...

Gratitude is defined as: the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.* In the month of November we find ourselves thinking about all of the things we are grateful for. Maybe we do extra kind acts during this month, maybe we practice a little more yoga, maybe we thank a higher power for all of the things in our lives. But what about the rest of the year? Why is it that we are make a bigger deal about being more grateful during the month of November than we do any other time? Is it because of the Holiday? The one that we as a society have chosen to overlook? We make the giving holiday a holiday all about me, me, me... about shopping and buying the latest high tech gadget and once those doors open we do not care about anyone else. We only care about being the first to get that new gadget. We fight people over it, we are rude to sales people and our fellow citizens, and we fork out tons of money for something we ultimately may not n...