My mother practiced yoga. Which meant that when my friends came to visit, my mom would show them how she stood on her head. And years later, when my daughter had friends visit her grandma, she would show them how she stood on her head. Once she stood on her head in the middle of a party. Another time she did it in the airport. Sometimes she stayed upside down for a while, her face growing redder and redder, as she told how wonderful it is for the body to be upside down. How it cures all kinds of pains and illnesses.
For years I thought she was nuts. (I mean, she is/was nuts.) But I’ve discovered that there are some aches and pains, esp. the kind you get from writing too long—that are best cured by going upside down.
The Inner Need
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… we find them in us … This is from ‘Is Life Worth Living?’ found in
William James: Writings 1878-1899 (1992): … is not this duty of neutrality
where only ...
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I plan on doing cartwheels for my grandchildren...
happy upside down purple.
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