On the Way to William Penn House for Tuesday Night Yoga Practice (with a Detour to the UPS Store Which Resulting in My Bumping Into a Neighbor Who Is Growing Glorious Dahlias)
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Signs Around Town (San Francisco Style)
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
In Honor of National Book Day
Current stack of to be read in anticipation of upcoming travel. Though I’m on a brief detour into a reread of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” which appeared the other day in a nearby “little free library.” The Arundhati Roy is so finely wrought, I can only read a few pages at a time. The Madhur Jaffrey, by serendipity, has a bit about one of places I will be eating.Of Moment
The “occupy” movement has all but disappeared from consciousness. Other stories have grabbed the short attention spans of the press, hungry to be the one to be telling the nowest thing. Most of the occupations have long since been evacuated by the powers that be (in charge). The buzz words remain part of advertising and political sound bites, but not much else remains. Being of the moment is so very different from truly living in and for the moment.
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Yoga Is Skill In Action
I’m spending the weekend via Zoom with Michelle Johnson, for a “Skill in Action” retreat, where she is creating and holding the space for exploring how we individually and collectively can act to bring more communal justice, through anti-racist action, in our own lives, in the yoga community, and in society. She has been doing anti-racism work for 20 years, and has been practicing yoga and teaching since 2009. She published “Skill in Action,” in 2018. I read it several months ago. She said that she was flooded with orders the weekend after George Floyd was murdered.
What changed? Was it the confluence with the pandemic? Will we engage enough to make this an opportunity for lasting change or will those who are least impacted get weary or bored? What can would be allies do to help make it the former and not the latter?
I’m up late writing this after having spent a couple of hours dancing around and getting ready for tomorrow and contemplating and, of course, playing with Maitri.
State of the Garden
Hops beginning to blossom. I hadn’t realized one can also eat hops shoots.
