...after years of trying, got my mom to go to a yoga class, in her assisted living community, only to face the realization that, though showing up might be half the battle, it’s still not the same as actually participating...
...couple days earlier, back in Philly, a friend I sometimes see in yoga class was acting stranger than usual, commenting dreamily on the colors of everybody’s t-shirts as they walked in and rolled out their mats....I thought about making a joke, asking if he’d taken psychedelic drugs before class again....then, later, talking to him, realized it was probably a good thing I didn’t...
...the more beneficial meditation is likely to be,
the less likely it is you're actually gonna wanna do it....the complete opposite
is true of getting wasted....it’s in those times when it’ll be least
beneficial, most thoroughly counterproductive, that it’s most enticing...
Ancient and Revered Yoga Cynic Sutra 108.19
...meanwhile, outside the studio, a movie was
filming...Walnut Street going east to west instead of west to east, I
noticed...and, somebody told me, the street signs had been changed, so Walnut
Street’s not even Walnut Street...Philadelphia, perhaps, not even Philadelphia,
anymore...fake gunshots and grenades going off all through our vinyasas...
...lately seems like there's nothing whatsoever to do and everything in the world to be done....this is where it all ends and begins....killing time before the apocalypse which is always right now...
