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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 [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring MYKONOS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—9/26/11—Today, I learned why Greek passports are good for five years: it actually takes five years to renew one. Anyone who has lived almost anywhere in The (so-called) Levant, from Greece, circling around through Turkey, detouring over to Cyprus, and then moving on south into the [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: This fall, due to reader-request, I am running all my Yoga columns in sequence. “[Jelly Roll] Morton was, along with Tony Jackson, one of the best regarded pianists in the Storyville District early in the 20th century. At the age of 14, he began working as a [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: In fact, this column is a re-run from last year: as it posts, Dean and I are on yet another small plane, courtesy of Orbitz.com, en route to Mykonos. 38,000ft Over Fort Wayne, IN—(Weekly Hubris)—9/12/11—Travelocity.con. And, no, that’s not a typo. As a travel writer who’s been [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: The pair of columns that follow here comprised my first writing about Iyengar Yoga. Responding to requests to re-run all my Yoga columns in sequence, I am doing so this fall: Namaste. TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—9/5/11—In the middle of my sixth decade (that’s at age 56, Oh [...]