sunday afternoon

[fflo]

may get my butt out of the house in a little bit. may not. we shall see.

youssou n'dour last night was really good. transporting, even. eventually even most of the mezzanine was dancing. so glad shmizla (pretty much) drug me there.

earlier in the day she'd seen a bumpersticker:

IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THANK A TEACHER
IF YOU CAN READ THIS IN ENGLISH, THANK A VETERAN

or was it "A SOLDIER"? either way, an accomplishment in pithy ign'ance. simultaneously stupid on multiple levels.

later i came up with this (variation on a theme) idea for a bumpersticker:

        FREE YOUR ASS AND
   YOUR MIND WILL FOLLOW

or is it more an idea for a religion?

i wonder whether "lord love a duck" comes from a particular concept in theology.

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

wow. really? that's so not the hardcore thing i imagine in that place.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i think these are meant to be kids' mats, but i've used them a few times. it's kinda fun :)

there's a lot of ambivalence about being hardcore and being 'relaxed' at the same time. i think the goal is an entirely counterintuitive one by 'western' standards, to relax by exerting yourself completely, that is, to understand what happens when you just do things rather than make them happen.

i think this is the 'meditational' aspect of the practice, in the sense that two thai women (whom i taught english) explained it to me: that you always only do one thing at a time, and that thing only, and you let yourself be 'occupied' by it, to the degree that you know no other things and see no other things but that one. so, for example, you don't eat and watch tv. you only eat. etc.

in this way, you don't dwell on what you could have done before, and you don't anticipate what will come at you in the future. you just deal with what you know and can do, because neither past nor future do you have any control over. i wonder if this last sentence is grammatical.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

grammatical, yeah. unconventional enough in word order as to be arguably not smooth, but who am i to talk of such a thing.

the relaxed thing reminds me of talking to gwen & co at your party about the mind-blowing stuff i got from kundalini yoga breathing exercises. talk about counterintuitive.

the meditational focus & singularity of focus stuff reminds me of sex.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

as it well should. if you can't be present for that, then there's something profoundly wrong going on.

you may not wish to address it, though, because it might make your head explode. rather, you may want to offend those who think that it's important to be there at least for a few things in your life, with a few people, on a few days.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

thank god i'm not that guy. or girl.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

yes, the jesus christ of nazareth and such. :)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

hey, i've heard of him. what film was he in again?

bad santa is coming out, o. i don't know about tonight.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

is there going to be a sighting? or should i say 'witnessing'?

i'll give you a call before yogification...