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Joey and I stepped out on the weekend after having a pretty well balanced week.  Two yoga classes, a 7 km walk walk together, and a couple of runs for Joey D kept us semi-in-check.  We enjoyed a limited amount of Manhattans mid-week and poured it on at the weekend.  

Actually, Travis, the bar artist at Jaroblue in Calgary, Canada poured them for us.  Jaroblue is one of the sexiest places in town to have a cocktail - no doubt.  The interior is plush, the photography by Dutesco fantastic, and the staff welcoming and relaxed.  And the Manhattans are stellar.  Travis has a special cherry that makes these the best Manhattans Joey has ever tasted, and he has indeed tasted around the globe.  I concur.  Travis makes these with fine ingredients and love.  It makes one think; how we treat ourself and others in the moment - it makes a difference in food and drink, and our body and life.

What are your daily treatments? 

Eat a chicken that is too fat from hormones, perhaps depressed or crazy, and has claws locked around a cage, or search out a farmer nearby, an ethical source that raises chicken that have a bit more of a life?  

Drink copious amounts of alcohol and soda, or filtered water and chilled Rooibos tea?

Treat your loved one like a punching bag, or hug them up because the 9-5’s are long enough?

Eat processed non-food for dinner, or steamed kale with egg and sesame oil with a heap of real veg?

Slug on the sofa 5 nights a week, or do some Restorative Yoga classes?

Ignore the peeps in your daily life, or make good eye contact and some meaningful discourse?

Luxuries lie in our choices.  

I’m choosing not to have another Manhattan til I get to NYC in November and watch Joey run the marathon.  Maybe after our night out at the Metropolitan Opera.  It might make me gush.

Cheers and bottoms up!  I mean downward facing dog.  It really is a nice position.  Do it with legwarmers on; it's getting chilly.