Abigail KingMay 51 minMay 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...
Abigail KingApr 241 minIndoors 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...
Abigail KingSep 23, 20211 minair season, welcome! Summer (or, earth season) ended with a beautiful waning gibbous moon (almost full!), and here in Austin autumn-- also known as air...
Abigail KingJun 30, 20211 minLanguage can be funnyEveryone appreciates the absurdity of a good oxymoron (Hell's Angels; jumbo shrimp). Sometimes, more subtle. In Tarot, the Death card...
Abigail KingJun 20, 20211 minenergy movingYou noticed the empty space? That's where the heart shaped rock with the speckled back rested for a moment.
Abigail KingJun 16, 20211 minWelcome 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....
Abigail KingMay 31, 20211 minHeart 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...
Abigail KingMay 17, 20211 minOur Small, Consistent Drishti of LoveThese ubiquitous humble dots of yellow only disappeared from the park for a month or so over the winter. Even then, they weren't...
Abigail KingApr 15, 20211 minnewness + relinquishing expectationWe planted five vines of lush jasmine around our backyard last spring. In the midst of pandemic, the local nursery allowed limited...
Abigail KingApr 7, 20211 minOne 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. ...
Abigail KingMar 19, 20211 minSigns of SpringWhen 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...
Abigail KingFeb 27, 20211 minOnward!85 degrees last Tuesday in Austin. The crazy freeze may have contributed to keeping the city weird but it didn't make everything okay;...
Abigail KingFeb 17, 20211 minUncomfortableIt was 8 degrees Fahrenheit here in Austin, TX on Monday. Our neighborhood lost power at 2am during a freakish snowstorm. It's Wednesday...
Abigail KingJan 21, 20211 minhumble rootsMy Slavic grandmother Veronika grew up poor. She walked miles to school on cold mornings across frozen farmland outside Bratislava with...
Abigail KingJan 14, 20211 minsmall thingsIn the other room, my architect boyfriend is on a call. For an hour he's been patiently, intently discussing how to work a project...
Abigail KingDec 14, 20201 minDreamsToday 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...
Abigail KingNov 13, 20201 minFalling LeavesEven with the weather balmy, the leaves fall. I love November for that. The way the limbs reveal the bare majesty of their structure....
Abigail KingNov 11, 20201 minReceptivity PosePema Chodron received advice from a mentor about mindfulness: At teatime, just drink tea. Like teatime, yoga provides opportunity to...
Abigail KingNov 9, 20201 minNourishment for body and for soulIn another lifetime, (pre-pandemic, pre- a lots of new life circumstances!) I loved throwing dinner parties. Sure I'm an introvert, but...
Abigail KingNov 7, 20201 minBeyond adjectives, beyond labels, the essential you. No descriptors, just you. There was a version of you that lived, that existed before language. In...