News of the Fail

Apr 9, 2010
Um. An entire article on Christians and Jews adapting yoga to their spiritual practice, an article that actually admits, for once, that yoga has a spiritual component, and not one quote from someone using it as a Hindu spiritual practice? Fail, LA Times.

Further Reading

Apr 6, 2010
I haven't been able to get words out in a coherent order lately, so here are some other people who are (and have been) saying things much better than I can.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. LeGuin.

On responsibility, Bruce Baugh at Making Light

Ulysses, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Holy Fire, T. Thorn Coyle

The Gulf, Albert Goldbarth

(I am not as melancholy as this collection may seem. Thunderstorms encourage deep and thinking thoughts, as the sky closes in around us.)