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

“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 ( Read more... )

"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, ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

It'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 ( Read more... )

Whiskey is for drinking;
water is for fighting over.
--Mark Twain

http://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.


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Life is tough,
but it's tougher
when you're stupid.
--John Wayne

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)

Several incredible shots here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8176148/Perfect-storm-amazing-photos-of-supercell-thunderstorms-by-Sean-R-Heavey.html