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December 2016
Current Lewk.
Goals.
Had a corporate class... Only one student. So, we practiced silently together. Then one more turned up. We carried on at our own pace. They gave me such a gift.
That "Black Mirror" episode with Waldo, tho.
I tend to take pictures of people's license plates when I see them casually being dicks. Their reactions remind me so often that folks lack valor.
People have been asking what Charlie will be doing while I am in India. Well, after his disappointment with the election and concern about losing his jet setting ways with an unstable economy, Chuckles got a sidehustle driving for Lyft.
November 2016
Leaving for Goa in less than two weeks. Time with beloved teachers, adventures, and solitude.
Rory was having a helluva year-- which is just how it goes sonettimes. Who didn't spend a year (or 5?) making bad decisions?
http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/11/28/13760018/gilmore-girls-final-four-words-review-bad?utm_campaign=vox.social&utm_medium=social&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_source=facebook
http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/11/28/13760018/gilmore-girls-final-four-words-review-bad?utm_campaign=vox.social&utm_medium=social&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_source=facebook
"Meanwhile, Trump has already sought to leverage the office of the presidency to pressure foreign governments to take actions that would improve his bottom line. Trump admitted that he asked a group of British politicians to kill a proposed wind farm he believed would mar the views at a golf course he owns in Scotland. He reportedly asked the president of Argentina to approve permits for a high-rise in Buenos Aires. (Trump denied the allegation, although his local partner announced the project was moving forward the next day.) Trump has also had his daughter Ivanka, who is supposedly managing his day-to-day business interests, sit in on meetings with heads of state.
Eisen views the current situation as dire. If Trump is permitted to be sworn in as president without selling his companies, he says, the country is facing a âwholesale oligarchic kleptocracy of a kind that we have never seen before in our history.â"
https://thinkprogress.org/electoral-college-trump-top-lawyers-8a8b6e0ca916#.si3nnwubn
Eisen views the current situation as dire. If Trump is permitted to be sworn in as president without selling his companies, he says, the country is facing a âwholesale oligarchic kleptocracy of a kind that we have never seen before in our history.â"
https://thinkprogress.org/electoral-college-trump-top-lawyers-8a8b6e0ca916#.si3nnwubn
Octopus unicorn.
Octopus unicorn.
"Linda is a nightmare. She cries if the tea is cold." -- Emily on GG
Settling into Gilmore girls on a Sunday night.
"Friends in Low Places" ....I sweated through my shirt & palms.
"Friends in Low Places" ....I sweated through my shirt & palms.
Rescue Goat With Anxiety Only Calms Down In Her Duck Costume
https://www.thedodo.com/rescue-goat-duck-costume-2107301918.html
https://www.thedodo.com/rescue-goat-duck-costume-2107301918.html
Quiet morning at the shala-- led primary with a single row. Same faces as as when one full row was a busy day. I love these folks.
@[821580710:2048:Amaya Naomi] and @[100000908140794:2048:Chris White]
I want the last 3 minutes back but also want you to watch this
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=oDNTwcbKYpk&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqGakV9vqnZQ%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=oDNTwcbKYpk&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqGakV9vqnZQ%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded
oh my.
So hard to get out of bed after a nap.
So hard to get out of bed after a nap.
One of my students gave me this little guy. He's modeling Triangle at the DC Inspection Station.
HOW TO CONTACT YOUR REPS⦠EVEN IF YOU HAVE SOCIAL ANXIETY: A COMIC
http://echothroughthefog.cordeliadillon.com/post/153393286626/how-to-call-your-reps-when-you-have-social-anxiety
http://echothroughthefog.cordeliadillon.com/post/153393286626/how-to-call-your-reps-when-you-have-social-anxiety
It strikes me that one of the great joys of my life is getting to see every sunrise & every sunset.
ððððððð»ð»ð»ð¨ââ¤ï¸âðâð¨ð¨ââ¤ï¸âðâð¨ð¨ââ¤ï¸âðâð¨ð¨ââ¤ï¸âð¨ð¨ââ¤ï¸âð¨ð¨ââ¤ï¸âð¨Power Rangers Cosplay Ends In Marriage Proposal
http://cosplay.kotaku.com/power-rangers-cosplay-ends-in-wedding-proposal-1789118077
http://cosplay.kotaku.com/power-rangers-cosplay-ends-in-wedding-proposal-1789118077
Charlie has been assisting at @littleriveryoga in the afternoons while @livelyogini is in Arizonia with @davidgarriguesyoga. He likes a good alter, too.
Headed to bed thinking about my students across the globe studying with my teachers. Thinking thoughts of thanks to all of my teachers who encouraged me to study with their's. This yogi's heart seams tug.
Anyway don't be freaked out by the beard and all.
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/entertainment/news/a47276/blogger-freaked-out-girl-making-exact-copies-instagram-pictures/
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/entertainment/news/a47276/blogger-freaked-out-girl-making-exact-copies-instagram-pictures/
Can you spot Ganesh? This is my little alter at @dcashtanga ... From the darkness before daybreak 'till dawns early light, his shadow spreads wide-- the shadows of his ears becoming the wings of an angel.
His presence is harder to spot by the time the city begins its bustle, unless you know where to look.
I really love early morning practice, even when it's truncated so as to both support my community and to maintain healthy sleep... But man, catching the auspicious hour sure does reveal things that can't be found in the light.
His presence is harder to spot by the time the city begins its bustle, unless you know where to look.
I really love early morning practice, even when it's truncated so as to both support my community and to maintain healthy sleep... But man, catching the auspicious hour sure does reveal things that can't be found in the light.
This is why yoga will never be mainstream.
Engaging in materialistic or sensual pleasure with little focus on higher purpose is not yoga-- it's called bhoga. Bhoga, left unchecked, can lead to pain in the body or/and mind-- and this is called roga.
On the flip side, Roga and Bhoga can both lead back to yoga. Once you make a commitment to not harming or deceiving by paying attention to what is, the pain and discomfort can lead you right back out of the yick and into something better: reality.
For yoga to arise, attention to reality must be fixed and firm... Even when it becomes unpleasant. Even when it is inconvenient. Only then can we see what's under the hood.
Yoga will never be mainstream, but nowadays is a great time for alchemy. For transmutation. Turn this time of grasping and grabbing and pain into abiding love and bliss, by doing the inconvenient and uncomfortable.
When the tide comes in, all boats are lifted. "Other" is only illusion. The side effects of yoga are worth the effort: abiding joy, made of honesty and love. This does not mean "free of pain" but it does mean "free of suffering."
Engaging in materialistic or sensual pleasure with little focus on higher purpose is not yoga-- it's called bhoga. Bhoga, left unchecked, can lead to pain in the body or/and mind-- and this is called roga.
On the flip side, Roga and Bhoga can both lead back to yoga. Once you make a commitment to not harming or deceiving by paying attention to what is, the pain and discomfort can lead you right back out of the yick and into something better: reality.
For yoga to arise, attention to reality must be fixed and firm... Even when it becomes unpleasant. Even when it is inconvenient. Only then can we see what's under the hood.
Yoga will never be mainstream, but nowadays is a great time for alchemy. For transmutation. Turn this time of grasping and grabbing and pain into abiding love and bliss, by doing the inconvenient and uncomfortable.
When the tide comes in, all boats are lifted. "Other" is only illusion. The side effects of yoga are worth the effort: abiding joy, made of honesty and love. This does not mean "free of pain" but it does mean "free of suffering."
So, my queer friends house in Philly has been egged & the church down the way has been vandalized with "white nation." Heard about these two older guys trying to decide whether or not to take off their "make America great again" hats before going into a Manhattan bar-- so easy for them, not so for the black church & the 'pink' house.
Hours of meditation.
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