Abigail King
May already!
May is my favorite month. Maybe because it is my birthday month, I always feel a sense of renewal in May, as well as an acknowledgment of...
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Abigail King
- Apr 24, 2022
- 1 min
Indoors again (sometimes!)
Sorting through photos from the past couple years I found so many images of my yoga mat unrolled in various outdoor locales (in this...
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Abigail King
- Sep 23, 2021
- 1 min
air season, welcome!
Summer (or, earth season) ended with a beautiful waning gibbous moon (almost full!), and here in Austin autumn-- also known as air...
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Abigail King
- Jun 30, 2021
- 1 min
Language can be funny
Everyone appreciates the absurdity of a good oxymoron (Hell's Angels; jumbo shrimp). Sometimes, more subtle. In Tarot, the Death card...
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Abigail King
- Jun 19, 2021
- 1 min
energy moving
You noticed the empty space? That's where the heart shaped rock with the speckled back rested for a moment.
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Abigail King
- Jun 15, 2021
- 1 min
Welcome to Texas! Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes...
These were among the first words uttered to me by my dear not-yet-but-about to-be-friend Nathan when I rolled into his city 25 years ago....
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Abigail King
- May 31, 2021
- 1 min
Heart Sutra (my brain hurts a lot)
Our weather this spring has been hard to pin down. The lush green foliage and happy fireflies are lovely, but the constant predictions...
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Abigail King
- May 17, 2021
- 1 min
Our Small, Consistent Drishti of Love
These ubiquitous humble dots of yellow only disappeared from the park for a month or so over the winter. Even then, they weren't...
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Abigail King
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
newness + relinquishing expectation
We planted five vines of lush jasmine around our backyard last spring. In the midst of pandemic, the local nursery allowed limited...
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Abigail King
- Apr 6, 2021
- 1 min
One year ago today...
four of us met in Shipe Park, with excitement and trepidation. Annette, Clayton, Paula and me. It felt transgressive in the best way. ...
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Abigail King
- Mar 19, 2021
- 1 min
Signs of Spring
When my now 13 year-old son was little we'd take walks in late February/early March looking for "signs of spring". His face would fill...
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Abigail King
- Feb 26, 2021
- 1 min
Onward!
85 degrees last Tuesday in Austin. The crazy freeze may have contributed to keeping the city weird but it didn't make everything okay;...
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Abigail King
- Feb 17, 2021
- 1 min
Uncomfortable
It was 8 degrees Fahrenheit here in Austin, TX on Monday. Our neighborhood lost power at 2am during a freakish snowstorm. It's Wednesday...
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Abigail King
- Jan 21, 2021
- 1 min
humble roots
My Slavic grandmother Veronika grew up poor. She walked miles to school on cold mornings across frozen farmland outside Bratislava with...
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Abigail King
- Jan 14, 2021
- 1 min
small things
In the other room, my architect boyfriend is on a call. For an hour he's been patiently, intently discussing how to work a project...
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Abigail King
- Dec 14, 2020
- 1 min
Dreams
Today is the new moon, and the last solar eclipse of 2020. Usually I sleep quite well on new moon eves, but last night I didn't. I was...
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Abigail King
- Nov 13, 2020
- 1 min
Falling Leaves
Even with the weather balmy, the leaves fall. I love November for that. The way the limbs reveal the bare majesty of their structure....
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Abigail King
- Nov 11, 2020
- 1 min
Receptivity Pose
Pema Chodron received advice from a mentor about mindfulness: At teatime, just drink tea. Like teatime, yoga provides opportunity to...
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Abigail King
- Nov 9, 2020
- 1 min
Nourishment for body and for soul
In another lifetime, (pre-pandemic, pre- a lots of new life circumstances!) I loved throwing dinner parties. Sure I'm an introvert, but...
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Abigail King
- Nov 6, 2020
- 1 min
Beyond adjectives,
beyond labels, the essential you. No descriptors, just you. There was a version of you that lived, that existed before language. In...
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