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Twitter Detritus (01-10)

Another month’s worth of mental flotsam and jetsam in tweet-sized bites:

01 — New Years Eve with the grandkids, The 3 Stooges, Spongebob, and Dick Clark. A good way to bring in the last year of the decade.
04 — Hot yoga tonight. Not Bikram but plenty warm and sweaty! Enjoyed it.
05 — Annual checkup with cute [...]

Getting Nerdy with Tantra

I found this in Yoga Journal’s Yoga Diary, an excerpt from Getting Nerdy with Tantra by Karen Macklin, about a lecture on Tantric Yoga by Chris Tompkins:

Tantra, which came after classical yoga, had two new revolutionary offerings: 1 – it offered the possibility of liberation in this lifetime (as opposed to having to wait many [...]

Yoga for Asthma

Quote of the day: “Don’t believe what I tell you. Believe your experience of this yoga.” — Yogi Bhajan
Song of the day: Climb
Artist: Kristin Luna Ray
Album: Where Heaven Meets The Earth
Released: 2009

Control of the breath is considered to be the key to a good yoga practice so it seems reasonable that yoga might be beneficial [...]

Benefits Of Living A Holy Life

Technorati Tags: beliefs,benefits of a holy life,enlightenment,faith,ideas

Here’s a search term that led some unsuspecting soul to this blog: benefits of living a holy life.

I suspect this individual was seeking spiritual guidance and apparently didn’t find it here. Maybe that’s just as well because I don’t want all the crap the comes with being a spiritual [...]

Grocery List

Technorati Tags: groceries,shopping

Some things I saw while grocery shopping today:

Smart Bacon
Apparently, the pig wasn’t very smart as he got himself killed.
Prime Rib
Beef that cannot be divided evenly.
Smart Mouth
Not sure what this product is, but I was always told that a Smart Mouth was a bad thing.

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Rambling on Sunday

My nephew Joshua posted the following on Facebook yesterday:

Did you know the human brain can only process up to 150 active relationships? We can only care about that many people at a time. No wonder no one gives a shit about Haiti. Compassion is a limited resource, and most of us are tapped out.

… I [...]

Uncle Sam’s Throbbing Military

I love the analogy and it makes a good point. I’m a veteran and I fully support our troops and appreciate the hell they go through. My beef has always been with those who decide national policy and put our troops in harm’s way. I had issues with that when I, too, was an instrument [...]

Winning the War, Revisited

There has been much talk about the full body scanners in the aftermath of the “Christmas bomber”. I’ve read much of it but generally haven’t gotten involved in the discussion. I’m opposed to them, not because some TSA employee will see a naked image of me but because I feel it’s another government intrusion of [...]

Really Important Issues

Talking out my ass about the really important issues…

Should gay marriage be illegal?
No, marriage is a civil contract bestowing certain status and benefits on a couple. Why should anyone be denied status and benefits simply because of sexual orientation? That is, to put it succinctly, discrimination. If gay couples are married, it takes nothing [...]

Yoga Misconceptions

Technorati Tags: exercise,flexibility,religion,yoga

Yoga Alliance did a survey to determine what might be preventing people from doing yoga. The three most common misconceptions were:

Is religion-based. 57% of those who do not currently practice yoga believe that it requires mantras or chanting related to a form of worship.
Requires flexibility in order to practice. Nearly 3 in 5 [...]

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