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By gabe On May 18, 2012
This is on my mind a lot lately as my work and play schedules are all over the place. My whole life I have had this idea that if you get up early you somehow have a creative edge on the day. The “early bird” thing. But at the same time I have consistently experienced my most creative capabilities during the late night-early morning crossover.
I don’t have a daily schedule right now. One day I am up at 4:30 AM for yoga practice and the next I am staying up until 1 AM to work on projects with other people. It feels like juggling, but for me is a necessity, because of the things I want to be involved in. And I wonder, is it best, or even, is it working?
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By gabe On May 17, 2012
Yoga has gotten a lot of negative press in this last couple seasons, mostly along the lines of How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body. A lot of discussion in the media has resulted from such claims, and I think a lot of clarity has been brought to light by the debates that ensued.
In general, yoga has this image, here in the west anyway, of something soft, spiritual, and relaxing. That seems odd to me though, as both my direct experience of it and the historical narrative for it are something quite different.
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By gabe On May 16, 2012
It’s in the stars, literally. Whatever one might think about interpretive views of the sky, the physical spheres continue to go about their miraculous business, spinning, orbiting and criss crossing in a vast play of titanic proportions.
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By gabe On May 15, 2012
In a new interview with one of the Anonymous leaders, Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, it is claimed that the hacktivist group has some serious access to the US Government’s data. I know, that’s two names for this guy, which gives a serious non-anonymous impression, but the situation is that he has been outed and is on the run from the US, currently hiding in Canada.
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By gabe On May 13, 2012
Any idea how Mother’s Day came about? Me either. But I always wonder, especially in this day and age when any main stream stone you turn over usually reveals some irony, hypocrisy or cultural manipulation.
But not so with Mother Day! We have here an actual celebration of something worth celebrating, and though “moms” are certainly just that, it turns out this day’s origin had more to do with preserving lives than with creating them.
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By gabe On May 13, 2012
As you may or may not know I have created an iOS app for casting runes. It is called RavenStones and is available in the app store. In addition I am getting closer and closer each day to finishing an update for the app that should bring it to a whole new level. On its site, RavenStones.com, I have begun to blog about runes, my experiences with them and ideas for their use.
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By gabe On May 12, 2012
I have no problem with conspiracies. For instance, myself and my peers are in a conspiracy with our yoga teacher to maintain a yoga studio where we can congregate and practice. Money changes hands, business is done, and we all get what we want. Any group of people getting together to make a plan could be considered a conspiracy in my mind. But usually when people use the word they are talking about the nefarious deeds of those in power.
Recently, in my book club, we decided to read some material by the writer William G. Domhoff, author of Who Rules America? His writing is refreshingly clear of the dark conspiratorial overtones that one would expect from such a title. He simply portrays the reality of the culture and behaviors of those he terms the power elite, and makes a good case that they are not the satanic martian lizards that many would prefer to believe they are.
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By gabe On May 10, 2012
A collection of items I have found interesting lately in the Ashtanga world.
Yogasanagalu (translation project) »
A translation project of a book by Krishnamacharya which outlines practices that bear very clear resemblance to the modern Ashtanga sequencing. There is a …
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By gabe On May 9, 2012
A few months ago I was privileged enough to be a participant at the first ever Ashtanga Yoga Confluence. I had never been to a yoga-thing like this at all, much less an event specifically about Ashtanga Yoga. It was an amazing …
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By gabe On May 5, 2012
Are you wishing you knew more about the changes people are trying to make around the world, but don’t have the time to follow all the news sources that this would require? Even more, do you wish there were some way that you could be more involved and help with those changes, but don’t have the time, energy or other resources that it would take to get involved?
Some people are just activists. They arrange their life around a cause and give it their all. Most of us are not. But I don’t think it has to be an all or nothing thing, you know, the way the mind likes to frame things. I think that there is a very easy entrance point for people looking to survey the possibilities of their involvement, and it is online.
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