Ok, it’s really not that hard to grock.

well this has nothing to do with yoga, but i figure that if i’m going to comment on asia’s cultural oddities that i should comment on la’s cultural oddities too

http://www.heavytrash.blogspot.com/

in ashtanga we normally take off saturdays and new and full moons from practice, otherwise six days per week i’m on the mat at 7am (well sometimes 7:15) …. i’m having some problems with my foot today and felt especially lazy, so i decided that the moon day we had two days ago wasn’t enough and i’d just take one again today. it’s funny because years ago i wouldn’t think much of it, i would still be happy that i made it to practice four other days this week. part of me really does tell myself that same thing, but i know that there is part of me that says i should of just forced myself to go practice. even with my foot acting up, i could probably modify the poses and do something besides reaching up and hitting snooze. i guess the really funny part is that yoga is supposed to help me cultivate compassion towards myself, not cause me to beat myself up internally. perhaps that’s where it will bring me in 20 years or so, right now i’m only about seven years into my practice (well for this lifetime at least). for now, i think it’s important that i’m aware of the feelings and trying to keep them from running my life.

so i’ve been home for close to five weeks now, and i kept telling myself that i would write a long post about my trip, my observations coming home, about the two weeks i spent in thailand and never blogged about and all sorts of other facinating stuff. well i did start on it, but then i got busy doing some movie production work and when that wrapped my computer hard drive failed and well … mostly i just got lazy. i finally decided that i would just start posting again and that maybe some day i’ll do all those things i was going to do, then again i might just post new stuff going forward.

i also really wanted to put this pic online, scanned from newsweek it is our commander-in-chief showing his grief at the pope’s funeral.