Here I am.

It's funny how much I'm thinking about what to write here. My reason for starting a blog is to somehow marry my two Big Passions: improv and yoga. To me, both are about the present moment -- that elusive thing that we are always in, yet somehow habitually missing.

At least I do. How often am I really focused on what I am actually doing or feeling in this moment?

In improv, you have to remain present in order to tell good stories, in order to be good (whatever that means -- but we do know it when we see it). In yoga, you have to remain present to make crazy shapes with your body and still make nice with the gravitational field.

In both cases, thinking doesn't really serve you. Or rather, overthinking doesn't. The difference? Consider whether the mind is your tool or your overlord.

At least that's my experience. Which is why it's so ironic that I stared at this screen for as long as I did before finally writing my first-ever blog post. I don't want to write something that isn't good, that isn't perfect. But what is perfect, if not perfectly present?

That isn't to say I won't proofread. But maybe it's also to say that I won't censor. That's my intention: to be present, not perfect, as I relate my musings about improv and yoga.