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Yoga After a Year’s Absence: Back to My Future
“As my never-alas-met, always-kept-in-mind, and ever-inspiring late master-Yoga-teacher, B.K.S. Iyengar said: ‘Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In Yoga, they come together in the present.’”—Elizabeth Boleman-Herring…
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The Hoarder Who Grew Two Extra Pairs of Hands
“I, however, had never seen anything like A.C.’s house, and I believe my first words were, ‘We have to get you out of here.’ There seemed no time to lose: I could not…
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What I Learned From Baseball (Again, This Year)
“Baseball was the Kabuki of American sports. When home, I would zip through the room where my mother watched, riveted, gently shaking my head in disbelief. How could anyone sit still for three…
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Three Deaths in August: Michael Brown, Robin Williams & BKS Iyengar
“Each and every day on our planet, 154,957 of us, give or take, die (a number derived from data gleaned between 2012 and 2014 by the CIA, the World Bank, the UN World…
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So, Write a Villanelle a Day & Check Out of the Sickery
“That should get the juices flowing for those of you with any interest in composing rhyming poetry, and in struggling within the constraints of chess, corsets, cross-stitch, and cricket . . . all…
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Bye-bye to Dubai (on The Hudson)
“I am the only person I know in our neck of the woods for whom the city does nothing at all. I didn’t feel thwarted or closeted or invalidated in my childhood, which…
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The Great God Pan(ic Disorder)
“My husband falls asleep the moment his head hits the pillow, with big band jazz blaring on the Bose; but it takes half of what the R&D folks at Sanofi-Aventis and Sandoz have…
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Composing Oneself at The Threshold
“The thresholds—the two thresholds all of us pass over, descending into sleep, ascending into what we consider to be full consciousness—are the most precious, fertile, productive, and often fearful or blissful or alien…
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Sharing Office Space with Poets Claire Bateman & Susan Ludvigson
“For a 20th-century woman poet to be taught solely by men, and men with very fixed ideas about what poetry might be, and who might write it (especially Dickey), was not, I think,…
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“Litterae Humaniores”: “Opi” Skip’s Letters to the “Enkelkinder”
Ruminant With A View “Arthur Schopenhauer said that given our ‘three score and ten’ allotment, a wise division would be 40 years devoted to the ‘text’ and 30 to the commentary. My division…