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Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—Let’s get some things straight right off the bat. 1) I’m neither a genius nor a fabulously disciplined super-athlete; 2) I was never, ever, a “natural athlete” (a click murmur and early health problems, plus my usually being 3-4 years younger than my classmates pretty [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Editor’s Note: WeeklyHubris has run this column before, but the author feels strongly enough about the subject to post it again for new readers. “So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here—not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—1/2/12—What most readers (my few; my treasured), who know me as an essayist, a writer of non-fiction, may not know is that I also write poetry, that I began writing as a poet . . . and that I then wrote (and published) jazz lyrics [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—12/19/11—This year, I’ve been “house-cleaning.” That’s just one of The 99 %’s euphemisms for “turning one’s home upside-down looking for primo stuff one can profitably sell online for cold hard cash.” (We have other euphemisms, if you’re interested.) In the process of scrounging through my [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “From where/a red tomato/lies rotting/I am only/a few steps away.”—a tanka by Saito Mokichi (1882-1953) After completing the manuscript of her last (posthumously published) novel, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf fell into a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. The onset of World War Two, [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”—Rumi “If you want special illumination, look upon the human face: See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.”—Rumi “Lede: A lead paragraph in literature refers to the opening paragraph of an [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: These are the last of my Yoga Columns Series to be re-run. I’ll be back at my laptop, and on my Yoga mat, in Teaneck, next week. TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—10/31/11—It snowed last night in New Jersey. Not here in Teaneck. Farther south, if we’re to believe [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Elizabeth is back in New Jersey, recovering from jetlag after six weeks in her true homeland, Greece. Original columns will resume next Monday. This column first ran in April of this past year. As the photograph bears out, however, her back has recovered fully, a year and a [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: Once again, these columns represent part of my continuing series on Iyengar Yoga. TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—10/17/11—I was brought up a Presbyterian. In Pasadena. In the 1950s. If you’re an anthropologist, just that one sentence, and pair of sentence fragments, tell you almost everything about me. I [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: This continues my series of “Ruminations” on Yoga from previous years . . . “Although thirty spokes meet at the hub,/it is the empty space at the center/Which makes the cart move.” —from Lao-Tseu Philosophes Taoistes TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—10/3/11—After an almost-30-year relationship with Yoga, I still pride [...]