Are you beautiful?

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I have been trying to attain this posture for a while.  I seems I do not understand the structure- structure is not the problem actually.  The issue is with whether or not I can imagine my body doing this and then recreating the posture.  This is a constant issue for me, reminding myself that everything is not is your head.  Behavior,  action, word, outward expression is about who you are. Don't think, just do it.  This is what I tell my students in yoga- the opposite of what I tell my students in the classroom.  I tell them:use your mind.  As a creative writer- frankly the mind gets in the way.  It is attached to doubt and fear.  We will go forward ( as a class) like when you see a ballet dancer, yogi, or skateboarder moving with their body beyond thought.  It is beautiful to think of how limitless we are,  and contained in our bodies we are- I like the opposites.  I love living the dream of these dualities; mind/body connection. 
Satie impromptu bodies and space.

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

"Every type of particle in the Standard Model is associated with waves propagating in a field—just as photons are associated with waves propagating in the electromagnetic field. But for almost all types of particles, the average amplitude value of the underlying field is zero. But for the Higgs, one imagines something different. One imagines instead that there’s a nonlinear instability that’s built into the mathematical equations that govern it, that leads to a nonzero average value for the field throughout the universe."  Stephan Wolfram, Wired Science

Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

“I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow.”

Usually I say that guilt is a useless emotion, but it propels Shelley's work and to some degree Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.  Although he addicted to opium at the time- the poem still holds us hostage by the surreal quality of redemption/sin coupled with the death of the albatros and the beauty and terror of the sea snakes  -to say nothing of the drowsy and dehydrated sailors. We somehow can all relate.  Why do we purposefully kill?  Is it linked  to desire?  Mary Shelley lost most of her children, but wrote about death with objectivity and empathy. Can the heart bear anything?   

What do we say of love- that it will save us from our own small destruction? that it redeem us?  it is natural, but at the same time unfathomable.

Perfection

Are we in the garden yet?

"What makes human history such an uncertain and fascinating story is that man lived in two worlds—the world within and the world without—and the world within men's heads has undergone transformations which have disintegrated material things with the power and rapidity of radium."

The Story of Utopias, by Lewis Mumford, [1922], at sacred-texts.com

My yogis tell me we are already in the garden, but most people don't know it.  Is it all about perception and perspective? I like to think that there is no other explanation for happiness.  My new book of poetry is called The Garden (currently unpublished) and I meditate on the beauty around my in my own garden.  So grateful for the green and the trees, in both worlds- the world within and the world without.

What is your definition of perfection?

Icarus

Christian Hosoi (The Christ) exemplifies the Icarus myth in the 21st Century. After being arrested for drugs and doing time in prison, he becomes redeemed and reborn. What he does on the skateboard appears impossible. This is just what I am interested in; making impossibility possible. Icarus is my favorite myth. As a former skateboarder, I can only stand back and admire what this guy can do on his board.  I am also interested in the Hindu deity Ganesha- Lord and remover of obstacles.