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8 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Warm. ~ Michael Zoupa · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks, man.

Especially for this:

"Be bold in loving the people who mean the world to you.

"Tell them, be vulnerable to them. There is great power in vulnerability. In being brave enough to stand naked in the face of great forces, unashamed, unafraid…

"Be brave and love openly, with your whole heart while you can."

9 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Can a Status Symbol be... · 0 replies · +2 points

Brava!

10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - 7 Relationship Green F... · 0 replies · +5 points

James Dobson? Really? You had me until then...

10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - A Call to the Sacred M... · 0 replies · +1 points

Have you read Iron John?

10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Date a Boy who Serves. · 0 replies · +1 points

Testify!

10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Make Almond Milk in 5 ... · 1 reply · +4 points

I like slipping the skins off before I blend the almonds. Moreover, a regular blender works fine, lest your readers think they have to run out and buy a Vitamix before enjoying fresh almond milk. I will concede that there are plenty of other reasons to buy a Vitamix, however. I have invested in a nut milk bag, which is more durable and reusable than cheesecloth. I can really squeeze the dickens out of it. Lastly, I'm saving the "meal" left over from straining the almond milk. There are some nice GF cracker recipes that use almond meal.

10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Top 5 Reasons Not to G... · 0 replies · +2 points

It's just not true that 50% of marriages end in divorce. That figure is obtained by taking the number of divorces per year and dividing it by the number of marriages per year. The problem with this is that the pool of people available to be divorced is greater than the number of people married in a given year, because people getting divorced have been married for 30 days, 1 year, 2 years, 15 years, 24 years and so on. When we look at cohorts of people married for these intervals of time, and divide the number of people divorced in each cohort by the total number of people in each cohort, the figure at which we arrive (in the US) is closer to 30%. Arguably that's still high, and you will have made your point. But if you are going to say 50%, you need to be accurate as well as precise.

10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - In Defense of Robin Th... · 0 replies · +4 points

When a woman who is a survivor of military sexual trauma (rape, and the official retraumatization that follows) says she thinks "Blurred Lines" is unapologetic rape culture, and that the reaction to Miley Cyrus is slut-shaming, I tend to listen. Moreover, I tend to be persuaded by the "Dr. Jill" post above. White is a race, and male is a gender, but both are made invisible by our culture. I just can't give Thicke a pass.

10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - The One Yoga Co... · 0 replies · +1 points

My body tells me the green smoothie supports my practice. Just sayin'.

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Healthy Attachments: T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Some of the reasons people have become replaceable are structural, rather than cultural. What's salient for me is not that people give up on their partners, but that social structures like their workplaces have given up on them. "Precarity" (precariousness), especially in work, is an idea explored in France and Italy, but is exceedingly rarely breathed here.

Moreover, we are expected by such systems to regulate ourselves, by making of ourselves enterprises that must be commodified and marketed. When we see ourselves as commodities, and commodities in our economy are disposable, then it follows that we as people are disposable.

I'm all for creating an alternative culture based on better values. But we need also to attend to social structures, and examine the way in which we participate and replicate them, even as we try to represent an alternative.

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