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October 19, 2014
Bashing Yoga Barbie? Guilty As Charged
Bashing Yoga Barbie? Guilty As Charged – another great post from Danielle Prohom Olson! Would LOVE your comments…critical issue we are talking about here. Om!
Originally posted on body divine yoga:
This post is a response to recent comments left on Yoga Body, Yoga Barbie: The Movie. Comments accusing me of ‘thin bashing’, comments that have got me thinking and questioning myself deeply. Am I, despite my zeal to promote “body love”, being exclusionary, judgmental and even mean?
One woman writes “Please be aware of the feelings and perceptions for those of us who are thin. As a 100lb petite yoga instructor, I am constantly bashed then idolized for my figure. Somehow in the culture to take back the “woman” body, it has become okay to make nasty comments to someone for being small.”
Another chides me “ judging women’s bodies (i.e. assuming you know what blonde, thin yogi pictured above has been through spiritually) is *not* the way we’re going to progress as a gender. I challenge you to keep bringing these thoughtful, intellectual messages without throwing a woman…
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Writing Makes you Healthy
Writing Makes You Healthy…thanks Nicholas Rossis!
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Writing makes you healthy. Grammar, not so much.
We authors may be creative cheats, but is there any good news about our profession? Actually, yes! According to research cited by Arts.Mic, the benefits of writing go far beyond building up your vocabulary.
In fact, the act of writing itself leads to strong physical and mental health benefits, like long-term improvements in mood, stress levels and depressive symptoms. Just 15 to 20 minutes of writing three to five times over the course of the four-month study was enough to make a difference.
By writing about traumatic, stressful or emotional events, participants were significantly more likely to have fewer illnesses and be less affected by trauma. Participants ultimately spent less time in the hospital, enjoyed lower blood pressure and had better liver functionality than their counterparts.
Even physical wounds heal faster. In 2013, New Zealand researchers conducted an experiment on…
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October 17, 2014
True Saying by Albert Einstein
Einstein never fails to impress me…thank you Jo Robinson and A Small Act of Kindness…
Originally posted on A Small Act Of Kindness Can Bring Smile On Million Faces:
Spam, irritation, and the twitterverse
Jane Dougherty on the Twitterverse…enjoy!
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Talking about social media—because we were, weren’t we? Twitter’s a funny thing too. A few minutes ago I saw that a gentleman wearing full Saudi sheik gear was following me. I went to his profile and saw just scrolls and scrolls of arabic script so I didn’t follow back. I mean, why would I? He could be ranting off about anything and I wouldn’t be any the wiser. A minute later he’d gone. He’d given me about two minutes to decide to follow back or he wasn’t playing.
It made me think that I really don’t understand what makes twitter users tick. At first I just watched in consternation as the jumble of ads, spams, and incoherent, meaningless messages scrolled past. Then I discovered twitter poetry prompts and settled into a little backwater of the twitter stream full of little gems of poetic imagery. It’s fun, useful, and entertaining. I…
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October 16, 2014
Yoga Body, Yoga Barbie: The Movie
Love this post! There’s something wrong when people are starving themselves in order to meet some crazy standard of beauty….starving or puking or whatever…each one of us is fashioned differently….and each one of us is as unique and lovely as a single snowflake drifting down from celestial regions…thank you for the work you are doing, Danielle Prohom Olson — bringing yoga back to its divine roots, rather than aiding its proliferation as a way to look good according to fickle current norms…Om!
Originally posted on body divine yoga:
I’ve been writing about the ‘yoga body’ for several years now – but I’ve long been interested in body image and how it has been manipulated to control the economic and social behavior of women. Twenty years ago I directed a documentary titled Becoming Barbie which examined the rise of eating disorders in the light of the Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf’s premise that as women made gains in freedom and power they have been subjected to increasingly thinner and unrealistic standards of beauty. And now I’ve decided its high time for a follow-up film titled Yoga Body, Yoga Barbie because nothing exemplifies the beauty myth better today than the white, young, slim and sexy yoga body.
Twiggy
Wolf saw the beauty myth as symptomatic of a backlash against a female body that was growing increasingly free of control. She pointed out that as women’s corsets and girdles came off…
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October 14, 2014
William Styron On Creative Writing
William Stryon’s “SOPHIE’S CHOICE” blew my mind decades ago…he was one writer who inspired me to want to write seriously. Here is his take on Creative Writing…I agree with Styron. It’s easy enough to see whether someone has the potential for great music/writing/sculpture whatever. Culling these folks out of the mainstream and helping them evolve into their best is what a good teacher should be doing — because that person who is not a terrific writer could well be a terrific something else. And setting them free of false expectations is a good thing. Thanks for a great post, 101 Books, and those who read this post, would LOVE to hear your views on the subject.
Originally posted on 101 Books:
A while back, I wrote a piece about why the Creative Writing MFA isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be in securing one’s future as a writer.
As a writer without one, I’ve done fine with just an English degree. But some writers swear by the Creative Writing MFA.
So as I was looking over a Paris Review interview with William Styron, these two questions piqued my interest:
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October 13, 2014
Excellent Advice from Comedienne Phyllis Diller…courtesy my friend Dave Adie…
Whatever you may look like,
marry a man your own age.
As your beauty fades,
so will his eyesight.
-Phyllis Diller
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
-Phyllis Diller
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shovelling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
-Phyllis Diller
The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
-Phyllis Diller
Best way to get rid of kitchen odours: Eat out.
-Phyllis Diller
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
-Phyllis Diller
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
-Phyllis Diller
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
-Phyllis Diller
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
-Phyllis Diller
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.
-Phyllis Diller
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
-Phyllis Diller
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
-Phyllis Diller
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
-Phyllis Diller
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
-Phyllis Diller
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
-Phyllis Diller
My photographs don’t do me justice -they just look like me.
-Phyllis Diller
I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
-Phyllis Diller
Tranquillizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.
-Phyllis Diller
I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’
-Phyllis Diller
The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing.
-Phyllis Diller
You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.
-Phyllis Diller
October 12, 2014
Monday Funnies
Start your Monday off with a giggle…thank you Chris Graham!
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog..... An Author Promotions Enterprise!:
Another mixture of merriment for you today:
October 11, 2014
Feeding the Inner Shark
The mysteries of inner space…feeding your inner shark…fascinating, thank you Dr. Steven Fox…
Originally posted on Dreams: Guide to the Soul:
Dream 278: Feeding the Inner Shark
A 42-year-old man dreamed that he was swimming in the ocean infested with sharks. Sometimes the sharks would bite him, and sometimes he would bite the sharks. Neither he nor the sharks were seriously hurt by the bites.
The scene shifted to his hometown streets being flooded. Again the water was filled with sharks. He was able to bite and nourish himself from the sharks. He somehow knew that eating the sharks was “medicinal.”
A Chinese woman came to warn him not to bite the sharks too much. She did not disapprove of his feeding on the sharks, but mainly wanted him not to go overboard. He knew that the sharks were not hurt by his feeding upon them, because the bite marks immediately healed and regenerated.
Interpretation
Water is emotion. The ocean is the best symbol of the subconscious that we have. Creatures…
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October 10, 2014
Pakistani girl Malala wins Nobel Peace Prize
Malala Yousafzai: supporter of girls’ education and socialism; opponent of United States drone warfare in her country Pakistan. Bravo fearless being ! You deserve the Nobel Peace Prize along with Kailash Satyarthi (Indian activist against exploitation of workers). May your tribes increase! Thank you Kitty and the Story Reading Ape…
Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:
This video from the USA says about itself:
Malala: Fearless teen leads fight for global education
12 November 2013
One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was recovering from an attempt on her life by the Taliban. Now, she is among the most famous girls in the world as she lobbies for education. Norah O’Donnell spoke with the young activist.
As one of very few journalists, Ms O’Donnell asked Malala about her talk with US President Obama, in which she expressed her opposition to United States drone warfare.
Malala Yousafzai is widely known as a supporter of girls’ education; a bit less known in the mainstream media as a supporter of socialism; and as an opponent of United States drone warfare in her country Pakistan.
Today, the news came that Malala had won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize; jointly with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian activist against exploitation…
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