You are, quite possibly, a redshirt. As are we all. We all know about the Hero’s journey, I’ve blogged about it before and I’ve made a yoga flow about it. It sets the template for so many of our popular art forms. More or less: the hero pines for something, gets it, it’s good but not…
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Don’t let Amy Poehler become a Horcrux: Buddhism and the Self
Is meditating like taking the red pill in “The Matrix”? Yes, in fact it is, at least according to author Robert Wright in “Why Buddhism is True” – a book whose simplistic title does not do justice to its geeky and frankly mind-blowing innards. Wright holds that the clarity of meditation/mental work is so earth-shattering…
It’s 4:00 in my life – time for a tattoo and a hysterectomy
*Spoilers for season 3 of The Good Place and season 4 of Crazy Ex Girlfriend ahead, as well as for year 40 of my life. Last year I turned 40. Last week I got my first (and only?) tattoo. In two days I’ll get my first and definitely only hysterectomy. It’s a time of change,…
Yoga for Your Lady Time – and an Ode to My Last
Welp, this is it. My very last visit from Aunt Flo, my last trip to the Red Sea. Most women don’t know when it will be. I always figured that I would peter out in menopause in a blaze of awful, irregular glory, like my mother and grandmother and on and on back to Eve….
Taking a Transgression Vacation
Breaking the rules is fun. It always has been. From the moment you realize your parents don’t want you to do <blank>, and you actually in fact CAN do <blank>, you know the tingling rush of doing it anyway. You anticipate it. And even if you see great value in rules, the feeling of rebellion,…
Fandom Parapraxis – The Oddity of Freudian Slips
A parapraxis, or a Freudian slip, is a fascinating bit of human behavior. In it your words betray you – your inner core, your muchness, somehow bypasses your mental/vocal filters. Out comes what you really think or feel – which you may not even know yourself. How strange all this occurs with tissue and electricity…
Fandom’s Mental Yogis rise from ill to illustrious
It puzzles me when someone says someone else is “mentally ill.” After all, people don’t typically take on a permanent label of “bodily ill.” Illness of the body is just generally considered to be a normal state which you go in and out of, not warranting either accolades or shame. But mental illness of any…
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Check out, not off, your boxes: Sukhasana pose
In the immortal words of Buffy the Vampire Slayer – are you just going through the motions? She sang about going through the motions when she was kind of meant to be dead but wasn’t (so, really immortal words). Those of us very much alive, however, sometimes do the same. Obviously there are a number…
Power of Voodoo, Who do? You Do: Half Lord of the Fishes
Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle, beyond the goblin city… These words still gives me chills, and a latent feeling I should really remember them in case I need to face off with David Bowie. I can certainly see why they are loved by Sarah, the…