This blog began as a way to record my musings about preparations and travels to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada February 16-27, 2010. From that amazing experience came this ongoing story of becoming a sports fan. You can follow my tales of awe, agony, and all the emotions in between as well as view pics from seasons of Phillies baseball. Along the way is a little Eagles football thrown in for fun, and even some astronomy and weather related tales. I feel lucky to have witnessed some historic games, some heartbreaking losses, but all wonderful when told from this new fan's point of view.

Blog Archives postings:
Dec 2009-Feb 2010
Olympics
March 2010-Dec 2011
Baseball and more
2011 The Phillies do again, winning the Eastern Championship for the 5th straight year.
April 2012-Sept 27 2012 Not the best season for the Phillies
2013-We wait and see!

Thursday, February 18, 2010

A few activities in Seattle

The mountain has been in full view which is
 an unusual sight in February and reminds everyone why it is so glorious to live here.

At Drexel, I've been enjoying yoga classes, which my friend Anette also does at this studio called YogaTree. We went together for a class. The instructor gave a teaching on the Buddhist notion of suffering: When our expectations collide with reality we often blame 'reality' or the situation rather than our false expectations. We focused in the class on being present to the reality of the aches,the pleasures, our image of what we should be doing and what we could be doing.  This is a good send off for me as I go tomorrow into a situation with many expectations and I'm sure lots of surprises

Bikes Bikes everywhere in Seattle. Check out the Fremont Solstice parade on Youtube for more fun on bikes.

The Men of skating

Watch tonight for the finals



Like a schoolgirl, a smitten teenager, I love to watch these men in black.

Shaun White and Shani Davis

If you missed last night's events, check out Shaun White's Gold medal snowboard run and  Shani Davis' speed skating gold run. Shaun's sense of total fun and dedication is an inspiration, even to  those of us who will never get on a snowboard. I am disappointed that I won't see the speed skating live, especially after seeing Shani Davis,  the epitome of grace.

If you go to this website, you can see lots of great stuff, including Shaun White, Lindsey Von and Shani Davis

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=d924411a-bea6-4fd8-b485-f58dc5238dfe.html#mens+halfpipe+white+wins+gold