These times of meltdown are precious.
Stephen Cope
...but it ain’t easy to write about it when yer in ‘em...
Ancient and Revered Yoga Cynic Sutra 31:922
...a woman at the rehab said she wanted to write her life story, send it in and get it published as a book...I said for now, let’s just write...and, in the last fifteen minutes before I went home, she came up with a good page and a half or so about age five, approximately, to age eight, stopping every sentence or so with questions...how to spell addict and dealer to describe her mom and the guy who moved in, respectively, whether she needed to write out Kentucky Fried Chicken or if k.f.c. was good enough to describe the place where she rooted through the dumpster for food, whether rape or molest was the best word to describe what happened when she was eight...I shrugged, glancing at simple sentences without punctuation or paragraph breaks, said either works, I guess...
...(when someone like Maya Angelou writes about this kinda stuff, the punch in the gut's devastating but lyrical...a resounding song of the phoenix....the cruder tune of someone struggling with everything she’s got to get above the flames is something else entirely...a view of an apocalypse that’s always right now)...
Mature in yoga, impartial
everywhere he looks,
he sees himself in all beings
and all beings in himself.
Bhagavad Gita
...tomorrow I'm supposed to teach a free yoga class to some friends...told 'em it's guaranteed...reach enlightenment or your money back...
4 comments:
May your student discover her inner Angelou, drjay.
And have fun with your (first?) class!
Wow. Not much else to say, but I do try and see myself in all especially when the are like your client.
I wish her well and you teaching!
You have to admit from a literary stance her questions were on topic. I though for one would hate to have to flesh that story out. 5 years in 1.5 pages...
If some one brings some steaks to grill at your free class and it doesn't work do they get to take the beef home with them?
I wish someone would offer me a yoga class guaranteed to bring enlightenment!
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