Earth Day and more

Reading from Wednesday April 22, 2015 yoga class

Happy Earth Day!!  Here are some good Earth Day type quotes:

In nature, nothing exists alone     Rachel Carson

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.  We are all crew    Marshal McLuhan

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees    Karle Wilson Baker


The following two pieces are meant to make you SMILE.


Yoga Blankets, A Haiku

oh, yoga blankets
I fold you up nice and yet
your fringed edge mocks me

Have you ever been to yoga and suddenly it turns into a blanket origami class/  Not only is folding blankets in yoga an art, it's a science.  You can't just fold the blankets any old way, not for use as props and not for putting back on the shelves, heaven forbid the fringe is facing the WRONG WAY.  There are reasons for this besides the assumption that yoga teachers have OCD.  There's neatness and proper prop support, but perhaps the biggest reason is promoting consciousness.  How you do anything is how you do everything, right?
                                                                                              Cora Wen


Han Shan, that great and crazy Chinese poet a thousand years ago, said we're all like bugs in a bowl--all day goin' around never leaving their bowl.  I say that's right every day climbing up the side, slidin' back down over and over again.  Sit in the bottom of the bowl head in your hands--cry--moan--feel sorry for yourself.  Or--look around--see your fellow bugs--walk around say "how ya doin?" Say "hey, nice bowl."