|
|
|
|
Yesterday I introduced a challenge to my team.
100,000 steps for a week starting Monday (April 6th) and ending Monday (April 13th). It is doable. That means taking 14,000 steps/day. It is easy to track your steps; you can do so with your phone (health app) as I do with my iPhone Health App. Now that I spend most of my time in the apartment. I try not to sit during the day. I walk as I do conference calls with colleagues and students. I even walk as I listen to the news in the morning. In fact, I am walking as I'm typing this blog on my phone, and every night, I read my book as I walk around the apartment and listen to music. It is not ideal but certainly doable and could be fun. We can all go through these challenging times if we maintain our physical, mental, and emotional discipline. I am sure of that. There is a Peruvian proverb that I learned when I traveled to Machu Picchu: "Little by little one walks far." We can do this! Let's do it together. Take care of yourself, your family, your colleagues, your clients, and your community. And STAY ACTIVE! I hope you decide to do this challenge with me. Also, do something this weekend that you’ll thank yourself for on Monday. (Please let it not be Netflix or Streaming videos)
1 Comment
After being in my apartment for nearly three weeks, I have been thinking about Italy lately. It's not only because I have watched Italians battle the pandemic, and have seen time and again how resilient and creative people can indeed be during a crisis - but also because Italy is where my heart and mind go whenever I am longing for travel. In fact, I have been convincing my friends to buy a piece of land and build something in the next decade or so.
As a young college graduate, I took a driving trip from Austria to Italy and Croatia among half-dozen other countries. But Italy was something else. It felt like a real home away from home. There, I explored ancient tombs, learned ow to drink samba a con la Mosca, even dreamt in Italian for the first time (I don't speak Italian). Since then, I have not returned to Italy, but with friends or without them, I'll go build my tiny house with a farm. Now just need to convince my wife. Now that we are all staying home - for the time being, it doesn't mean we cannot revisit our favorite places in the world. That's why I'm going to launch a new type of book club, my first ever book club, with a theme. Each month, I will ask my book club members to pick a classic or contemporary book from a diverse range of voices; all stories will be deeply rooted somehow in a place. For the first book, why don't' we all travel to my true home away from home. Italy - surprise! A Room with a View by EM Forster. (It is free on Amazon). I hope this book brings us happiness to our days out home. The title alone is relevant: We are all stuck in a room, with a view - even if we live in Brooklyn in a tiny apartment with the view of our neighbors' balconies, or a little backyard. Yes, we can all change the stay-at-home challenge to travel at-home challenge. I hope you all join or start your own travel at-home challenge. Let me begin our journey with a few questions about A Room with a View.
|
AuthorRoozbeh, born in Tehran - Iran (March 1984) Archives
April 2024
Categories |
RSS Feed