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November 2017
Day One of #blackandwhitechallenge -- No people. No explanation. Tag someone new each day.
I learned to pretend to be a cat my first day of yoga. I didn't want to be called a cow. So funny how my sweet little ego bristled when confronted with something that sounded to it like a pejorative! As though our identity couldn't be anything we willed it to be? He hurt so badly.
Today, I'm pretending to be a very good contortionist with an absolutely infinite amount of options. It's all make-believe, afterall.
Inside of this, I'm also vowing to make a mudra, a gesture that conveys an idea, as @davidgarriguesyoga calls such things.
The idea being conveyed through this gesture? With right effort, you can feel the infinite amount of connections hidden within the universe and they all come back to a single point.
Can you see it? (I see a big ol' cow in there, too! 😂)
Today, I'm pretending to be a very good contortionist with an absolutely infinite amount of options. It's all make-believe, afterall.
Inside of this, I'm also vowing to make a mudra, a gesture that conveys an idea, as @davidgarriguesyoga calls such things.
The idea being conveyed through this gesture? With right effort, you can feel the infinite amount of connections hidden within the universe and they all come back to a single point.
Can you see it? (I see a big ol' cow in there, too! 😂)
Day One: #blackandwhitephotochallenge
Day One: #blackandwhitephotochallenge
Day One: #blackandwhitephotochallenge #failedit
Anyone interested in doing 23andMe? They're having a family sale -- 2 kits for $50 each. Use this to get the discount (and I'll get $20!). https://refer.23andme.com/s/michaeljoelhall
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Thank you for all you've done!
The sneaky peacock.
The sneaky peacock.
Submitting my DNA for testing to learn more about my ancestry and health predispositions -- excited enough Im telling y'all.
I was born on my phone number and I will not work with you.
I'm so grateful to @davidgarriguesyoga for teaching me so much about so much.
I'm so grateful to @davidgarriguesyoga for teaching me so much about so much.
October 2017
So! Good!
I'm 100% here for this.
I worked with her a number of years ago, shortly after the d-lists first season. She was incredibly professional and kind. The club's AC was broken, and her face was melting. My co-workers were passing out from heat exhaustion. No hyperbole. As the DC summer got hotter and swampier, the working conditions got worse. it's so easy to lose your cool under the lights, but she still did her thing and gave her all.
Like my friend Jarrett noted, she didn't thank those that supported her in this journey, and that gives me hella pause.
https://www.out.com/popnography/2017/10/28/kathy-griffin-drags-andy-cohen-and-releases-harvey-levins-phone-number
I worked with her a number of years ago, shortly after the d-lists first season. She was incredibly professional and kind. The club's AC was broken, and her face was melting. My co-workers were passing out from heat exhaustion. No hyperbole. As the DC summer got hotter and swampier, the working conditions got worse. it's so easy to lose your cool under the lights, but she still did her thing and gave her all.
Like my friend Jarrett noted, she didn't thank those that supported her in this journey, and that gives me hella pause.
https://www.out.com/popnography/2017/10/28/kathy-griffin-drags-andy-cohen-and-releases-harvey-levins-phone-number
Merman 2017.
Merman 2017.
Drag and yoga are so similar.
Drag and yoga are so similar.
Welp, the new Mario came and so did my Merman tights. Omg happy weekend.
Y'all still supporting that no-tax-paying, bigot enriching, minority oppressing, opiating organization?
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FTR: Im talking about the one that charges $9 for a bud light, not the one that asks for 10% of your income.
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FTR: Im talking about the one that charges $9 for a bud light, not the one that asks for 10% of your income.
Britney's Blackout is 10. I was 24! Rollerskates, short shorts, eyeliner, and friendship. PUJA
A Chechniyan popstar was tortured and killed by his government for being gay. Too close to home for my tastes.
The High Heel Race with @melrockas and @no_lies_b was what a girl wants. What a girl needs.
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The High Heel Race with @melrockas and @no_lies_b was what a girl wants. What a girl needs.
The High Heel Race with @melrockas and @no_lies_b was what a girl wants. What a girl needs.
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The High Heel Race with @melrockas and @no_lies_b was what a girl wants. What a girl needs.
The seasons are changing.
I'm allowing myself to feel the change-- right down to wearing long sleeves. I'm also trying not to get too wrapped up in it. SwamiJ says that witnessing = observation + non attachment ; Rolf says "easy come, easy go."
I'm allowing myself to feel the change-- right down to wearing long sleeves. I'm also trying not to get too wrapped up in it. SwamiJ says that witnessing = observation + non attachment ; Rolf says "easy come, easy go."
You can't rush a good fade.
You can't rush a good fade.
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PSA: Chaka Khan's Granddaughter? Raven Symonè.
Ashtanga yoga's primary series, as counted by Sharath Jois, can be completed in an unhurried manner at about the s…
Ashtanga yoga's primary series, as counted by Sharath Jois, can be completed in an unhurried manner at about the same rate as a full reading of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras in Sanskrit.
Today at @dcashtanga we practiced as Monorama (available on Spotify!) chanted to us. There are so many different layers to practice, I remain fascinated by what pierces through allowing me to be of this world and also internalized.
Humorously? Early on I heard "vrittayah pancatayah klishta aklishta" --1.5 Those gross and subtle thought patterns (vrittis) fall into five varieties, of which some are colored (klishta) and others are uncolored (aklishta). -- later? "shabda artha pratyaya itaretara adhyasat samkara tat pravibhaga samyama sarva bhuta ruta jnana" -- The name associated with an object, the object itself implied by that name, and the conceptual existence of the object, all three usually interpenetrate or commingle with one another. By samyama on the distinction between these three, the meaning of the sounds made by all beings becomes available.
Today at @dcashtanga we practiced as Monorama (available on Spotify!) chanted to us. There are so many different layers to practice, I remain fascinated by what pierces through allowing me to be of this world and also internalized.
Humorously? Early on I heard "vrittayah pancatayah klishta aklishta" --1.5 Those gross and subtle thought patterns (vrittis) fall into five varieties, of which some are colored (klishta) and others are uncolored (aklishta). -- later? "shabda artha pratyaya itaretara adhyasat samkara tat pravibhaga samyama sarva bhuta ruta jnana" -- The name associated with an object, the object itself implied by that name, and the conceptual existence of the object, all three usually interpenetrate or commingle with one another. By samyama on the distinction between these three, the meaning of the sounds made by all beings becomes available.
The overlap between being objectified by people of power and situations where assault of the sexual variety occurs runs the risk of allowing "me too" to be viewed from the cheap seats as a bit of a toothless tiger.
Sexual harassment occurs constantly. I have been sexualized and demeaned to some degree in every job I've had as an adult. I suspect almost every woman/gay men have, too. I know almost every gal in town has been catcalled, for sure.
On a hierarchical level we have given passes to strong men taking sex acts by force. The amount of people who voted for a man who literally propagated grabbing woman by their pussies and doing whatever he wants with them needs addressing. "They'll let me," he says.
At least 16 women have publicly accused Trump of forcibly attempting to kiss, grope and have sex with them. He is on the record saying he forcibly touches woman.
This is not sexual harassment-- this is sexual assault.
What kind of accountability do we reasonably expect men in power to have when we give them a "yes, but" along with a "me, too" So glad we're speaking up: remember this in 3 years, fam. The more voices we raise, the more potential we create.
Take that "Me, too" and talk to you husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, and kids.
Me, too.
Sexual harassment occurs constantly. I have been sexualized and demeaned to some degree in every job I've had as an adult. I suspect almost every woman/gay men have, too. I know almost every gal in town has been catcalled, for sure.
On a hierarchical level we have given passes to strong men taking sex acts by force. The amount of people who voted for a man who literally propagated grabbing woman by their pussies and doing whatever he wants with them needs addressing. "They'll let me," he says.
At least 16 women have publicly accused Trump of forcibly attempting to kiss, grope and have sex with them. He is on the record saying he forcibly touches woman.
This is not sexual harassment-- this is sexual assault.
What kind of accountability do we reasonably expect men in power to have when we give them a "yes, but" along with a "me, too" So glad we're speaking up: remember this in 3 years, fam. The more voices we raise, the more potential we create.
Take that "Me, too" and talk to you husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, and kids.
Me, too.
On this new moon, I cleaned out my inbox.
Logan circle, covered in glitter. Of course.
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