Your body’s sense of balance relies on several complex systems. Most of these systems, like your inner ear and the nerves in your core, are reflexive, requiring no active thought. The main exception (for most) is visual stimulus. Our eyes are often the first to detect and decipher a loss of balance in a conscious…
At the beginning of this year, I shook off my old yoga mat. It’d been sitting in a corner for months, dusty with disuse behind my gym bags and some clothes I’d been meaning to donate. Unfurling it, I noticed it had gained a perceptible curvature after being packed away for so long. That stiffness…
Two years ago, I was a ball of nerves. I paced my home office in pajamas, eyes flicking to the digital clock on my desktop. Each second that passed brought me closer to one o’clock, closer to the first official post on my new blog. A nauseating concoction of fear and excitement congealed in my…
Today marks the first anniversary of this blog. As I prepped this piece, I went back to read my first-ever post. It’s optimistic, funny, and riddled with silly little errors that wouldn’t get past my editing process nowadays. The year-past ghost of me that wrote it saw the burgeoning potential of this blog, and it…
Hi there! Welcome to Tea Reads: a blog about reading, writing, and drinking unholy amounts of tea. As this is the inaugural post and I, quite frankly, am quaking in my metaphorical boots, I’ll do my best to keep it short and sweet. My name is Cyndy and this is my first blog. Here’s the…
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