My kids are leaving me behind to re-be me as they become themselves. When I was first becoming me -- in those years between birth and adulthood -- and all the world was pushing me down, I would get into sarvangasana, a.k.a., shoulder stand pose, so that all the me that had been tamped down could return my heart and head. Balanced there on my neck and shoulders with my legs and feet pointing toward the heavens, I could see the world turned upside down -- the way I wanted it to be so that I, a young, assertive female, could be on top, not on the bottom where my 60's world was telling me I belonged.

Almost a half century later, my feet are full and can no longer hold any more of the true me. It's time to put my life into sarvangasana. I expect that the world I will there will be much more to my liking.

Welcome to my year of standing on my own shoulders.

Namaste