I came across “Kaizen” while combing the net trying to find help building this site. As I read, I realized that what Kaizen in many ways embodies many of the same tools that we eventually develop as we deepen our personal practice. What I read stuck with me so I thought I’d share.

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In general, I have tended to be a little out of touch since the ‘08 presidential election. However, when a news item trickles it’s way into my inner sanctum of clueless-ness, my curiosity is sometimes sparked. An example of this is that even though a week after it happened, the ” BP oil oops!” made it’s way into my pretty little world, as did the whole volcano ash issue over europe.  Another was the whole “to be or not to be” a  Mosque debate near ground zero.

So apparently there’s an  issue with eggs and salmonella. What’s interesting to me here is not what to do about the recall. That’s pretty obvious… (don’t eat them!) But every time something like this happens, there’s always a huge debate that spikes regarding our consumptive habits. And like many debates in this vein, emotions based on perceived knowledge tends overwhelm the empirical evidence.

I found this interview on The Conversation where Dan Benjamin talks with food scientists Dr. Donald Schaffner and Dr. Benjamin Chapman about “foodborne illness, parasites, food safety, contamination, and more.” I particularly found the part of the interview about food preparation to be interesting.

So, Bon Apptite

It’s a little long winded, but I wanted to update the new vision I’ve set for www.rootlock.com.

In the past and in the future, has been intended to be a blog about living in awareness. “Rootlock” is a translation from the Sankrit term “Mulha Banda” and refers to the control and utilization of energy, or prana, through out the body, both in yoga practice (emphasised in the Ashtanga tradition.)

That was the intent in the beginning. Moving forward, I while I still intend to make rootlock.com about awareness, it will be more personal and introspective rather than article-ish. If you’re interested my article-ish content, I’ll be posting that content on another site, www.omyogalife.com, which is intended to be more “professional.” I  may repeat posts from my other site and vice versa depending on content.

Now, you may have noticed that there are a lot of pictures of my little girl Averi, some of the family and other kinds of information or whatever. I needed to have a place to post that stuff, and since I had just decided to move content to this new tumblr site for ease of posting, I just posted it here to get it on line. (I’ll probably leave it. I mean, who could delete pictures of a baby as cute as Averi?) I have another website that I’m putting together that will have Averi’s pictures et al. It will be a good way to keep the many, many pictures and videos and the like delegated to a specific space.

Finally, in the future, once I come up with a good domain name, I am hoping to seed the beginning of a community for dads, particularly stay at home and single fathers. That’s forth coming. There will be updates here in the future. If you have any good ideas for domain names (that aren’t already taken) or if you are interested in maybe contributing from the beginning, let me know!