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Contemporary Western postural yoga projects an authenticity and unbroken ancient heritage onto the yogic tradition, while mourning the commodification, secularization and denuding of that tradition by the West. Such lamentation belies the fact that modern postural yoga is a creature of fabrication and reinvention.
--Farah Godrej
QotD: Women's Place
Feb. 2nd, 2018 04:10 pm“Women have their place
in this world,
but they do not belong
in the canyons of the Colorado”
—Buzz Holmstrom in 1938
I ran across this quote while reading a current piece about sexual harassment of women in the whitewater industry. I worked in that industry for a long time, but I had the good luck to begin at the Nantahala Outdoor Center which was one of the most egalitarian river businesses out there. I had been warned but later I found out for myself about residual sexism in the Grand Canyon river industry. I was based in Flagstaff for 7 years in the 2000's, and witnessed river men behaving as if it were still 1938. Time for an update, fellas. You don't get to decide the place of women.
QotD: De Becker on American Violence
Nov. 23rd, 2017 09:30 am"While we are quick to judge the human rights record of every other country on earth, it is we civilized Americans whose murder rate is ten times that of other Western nations, we civilized Americans who kill women and children with the most alarming frequency. In (sad) fact, if a full jumbo jet crashed into a mountain killing everyone on board, and if that happened every month, month in and month out, the number of people killed still wouldn't equal the number of women murdered by their husbands and boyfriends each year."
-p7 in The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
-p7 in The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
This article was originally written for a group of southeastern boaters who planned to row 18 foot rafts laden with 18 days of food/equipment through the Grand Canyon--without rowing experience. All were strong kayakers, canoeists, or paddle raft guides. Rowing is different. A heavy raft in Big Water requires new strategies. So this is my explanation, for that gang, of the nuts and bolts for getting down the Canyon.
Lesson 1: How to Punch Big Waves and Holes
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Lesson 1: How to Punch Big Waves and Holes
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Movie notes: Monte Walsh
Nov. 15th, 2015 05:07 pmIt's an old western with Lee Marvin, really a wonderful movie about a cowboy who looses everything but maintains his center, his calm and his kindness. It seems to be about the end of the Wild West. There's a fantastic and long riding scene in which the cowboy named Monte "rides the grey down". Humorous too. I liked it. My mom complains that it was slow. She already deleted it from her direct tv.
Obesity Trends per CDC
Feb. 6th, 2012 11:54 amhttp://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
You can check out the progress of America's increasing BMI by state, since 1985, on this govt page. The South leads the charge.
Colorado is the Rocky Mountain holdout but they are sliding too.
You can check out the progress of America's increasing BMI by state, since 1985, on this govt page. The South leads the charge.
Colorado is the Rocky Mountain holdout but they are sliding too.
It was boring! Boring.
How could it be anything else?
You can't see out from the bottom of a canyon.
--Floyd Dominy
(Dominy died in 2010 at age 100)
How could it be anything else?
You can't see out from the bottom of a canyon.
--Floyd Dominy
(Dominy died in 2010 at age 100)
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QotD: Voluntary Simplicity
Dec. 2nd, 2010 05:26 pmI have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (sometimes longed for). Why not kidnap Suzy and sneak off to the life of a semi-hermit? A tempting, constantly tempting idea. ......Peace. Simplicity. Order, ceremony and ritual. Voluntary poverty. An end to clutter and this vulgar, stifling, crushing burden of things.
--Edward Abbey
--Edward Abbey
Man of Courage
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008.
The Weekly Standard, 08/25/2008, Volume 013, Issue 46
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/417wvabo.asp?pg=1
by Harvey Mansfield
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008.
The Weekly Standard, 08/25/2008, Volume 013, Issue 46
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/417wvabo.asp?pg=1
by Harvey Mansfield
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Drought in the Colorado River Basin
Jun. 11th, 2007 10:05 amIn case you weren't aware of the severity of the drought that is already happening in the desert southwest, here's a little info (through "Riverwire" on June 6, 2007) about the situation with the lakes in the Lower Colorado River:
( Upper Colorado River Basin Hydrology )
( Upper Colorado River Basin Hydrology )
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Apr. 1st, 2006 10:54 pmA+ FANTASTICO! This is my new favorite movie, written by Guillermo Arriaga. It's a 2005 film, but we just got it in Flagstaff.
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