Wednesday, July 20, 2005

yama (niyama)

my yogi friend jai, from short mountain, tennessee, and yogi friends roger and danny, from montpelier, visited yesterday and came to my yoga class. jai arrived early afternoon and i had fun touring him around white river, showing off our semi-functional town. we also visited dan at new england camera repair, new london, nh and picked up jai's fixed camera while thunder and lightening struck close by. jai headed home after yoga. roger, danny stayed and we tried to eat at yama, our local japanese/korean yummy restaurant, but it was too busy, so we settled for italian food at three tomatoes. i left my take-home container there. like lost socks, there must be innumerable forgotten take-home containers, but i shall not forget the dinner filled with good conversation. the theme of my yoga class was "don't fight forces, use them," a phrase attributed to buckminster fuller, whom i find fascinating, and whose thoughts about buildings and machines i find meaningfully applicable to yoga. i'm heading down to faerie land this afternoon to mark trees for the loggers who will be arriving in a couple weeks to clear land for the faerie campground. i feel the power of saying which trees stay, which trees don't at the same time i'm feeling the ignorance of someone who has spent more time in front of a computer than in the woods.

card: emperor: fathering, structure, authority, regulation. maybe it's about the trees.

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