If you're not crazy, you're boring.

The back of every Kashi cereal box suggests that you eat healthy (specifically, lots of Kashi products), be fit, and practice yoga.

At first, I was sort of struck that Kashi was promoting yoga. But then, less so.

Those ladies with their yoga mats sticking out of their excessively large bags and those men on the bus with their mats strapped to their high adventure backpacks (Nalgene bottles hooked at every possible location) are probably the people who shell out the extra dollar for Kashi, rather than settle for Cheerios.

I am one of those people, sort of.

I run marathons. I do yoga. I own dumbbells and one of those large exercise balls. I buy Kashi cereal and choose my other foods based on protein, fiber and then calories.

I believe in living well. There is a popular shirt sold at marathons. "I run so that I can eat chocolate cake." Mine might say "I run so that I can eat chocolate cake, drink pumpkin spice lattes by morning and red wine by night." That is living well.

I'm going to explore the relation between the physical body and spirituality as an individual, in various religious contexts, and in popular culture in my blog this semester.

I attended Catholic school for twelve years, choosing to study at a catholic university for my first year of college. I transferred after one year. Studying in Rome, I found a strangely similar disconnect between the grandeur of the buildings, the stature of the pope, the sentiments of the Romans, and God.

I believe (well, I know) that life is brilliant. Life is bigger than I can imagine, and so my problems are smaller than I can imagine. But I often wonder about the relationship between religion and God, or faith, the goodness.. whatever you'd like to call it.

I plan to talk a lot about being healthy (for example which vegetables are substantially better for you when they are cooked, rather than raw) living strong, having hope, and finding peace in a world where the real news is often the funniest (possibly most terrifying) thing going.