...a friend said she was feeling sluggish and overweight...I said it’s mid-February, everybody’s sluggish and overweight...she said thanks for the pep talk...but I don’t know if it actually helped much...
...my experience with yoga and meditation has had something...actually, I think, a lot...to do with gaining the ability to experience depression physically...locate it within my own small space rather than confusing it with life as a whole...more like a sinus headache that doesn’t physically hurt than an existential condition...a wet blanket that isn’t actually wet wrapped around the chest as opposed to a neverending river of tears...
I've developed a new philosophy....I only dread one day at a time.
Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D'Souza
...I started to worry that the plan was going to crash...wrote a blogger friend...which seemed a perfect statement of my own dilemma...even though, given the context, she obviously meant to write plane....I worry a lot more about plans crashing than planes...
...getting ready to fly away from the ice and snow for a week....the trip’s paid for, the modern American way...deficit spending...woo-hoo!....and I’m far more concerned with losing luggage than mortality...
...my experience with yoga and meditation has had something...actually, I think, a lot...to do with gaining the ability to experience depression physically...locate it within my own small space rather than confusing it with life as a whole...more like a sinus headache that doesn’t physically hurt than an existential condition...a wet blanket that isn’t actually wet wrapped around the chest as opposed to a neverending river of tears...
I've developed a new philosophy....I only dread one day at a time.
Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D'Souza
...I started to worry that the plan was going to crash...wrote a blogger friend...which seemed a perfect statement of my own dilemma...even though, given the context, she obviously meant to write plane....I worry a lot more about plans crashing than planes...
...getting ready to fly away from the ice and snow for a week....the trip’s paid for, the modern American way...deficit spending...woo-hoo!....and I’m far more concerned with losing luggage than mortality...
* stolen with permission from another blogger friend
There was this Calvin & Hobbes comic strip a long time ago (yeah, that modern American version of “a long time ago”—we’re not exactly talking the Mesozoic era here, or even the pyramids...more like six or seven Madonna CD’s ago) where Calvin’s reading something and asking Hobbes what he thinks “religion is the opiate of the masses” means. In the next panel there’s a T.V. set with a thought balloon that says: “It means Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet,” or something like that (new motto: Yoga for Cynics: Where Sources Are Not Checked For Fear I Might Be Remembering Them Wrong). Right now, there’s a thought balloon hovering over my computer (yes, I am a cartoon character). It says: “Bill Watterson hadn’t seen anything, yet, either.”
