Thursday, February 16, 2012
working on not being jealous of this
i'm sitting here, brain dead after two days of conferences, wondering if i have the energy to go to kelsey's second series class, which i love, but have a hard time with since i messed up my shoulder and neck. thinking about how not to envy the yogi in the video's abs and her controlled handstand.
& thinking about julie's post on jealousy. didn't you love it? i think it's a good thing to talk about and work on. i read this post on envy from a poet who probably a lot of people are jealous of recently. it seems like a real illness in our culture.
or do you think it's only human? or do certain behaviors, social norms and values, etc. promote jealousy? i think about that a lot. i definitely think it's satan's way of keeping us from fulfilling our vocations, if i may borrow an idiom from my religious heritage.
legwear: sigh. charcoal. with a hole in them, like julie's. guess it's that time of the year.
inspiration: non-envy
looking forward: to a full night's sleep tonight
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I love that your inspiration is non-envy. I never thought could be inspired by that. Sometimes I get into spaces where denying myself jealousy would feel like a deprivation. Weird. What conferences?
ReplyDeletei just added the link to the poet's blog post on envy--forgot to do it. she wrote it a week or two ago,and it reminded me of your post. (and she's on faculty in my program.)
DeleteI also loved how my post on jealous linked to your yoga post. I have to keep my eyes on the mat, too. So many ways to be jealous!
ReplyDeleteMost depressing thing I've seen in years.
ReplyDeletei'm convinced that i will one day be able to do that--maybe when i've been restored to my full paradasaical glory, as they say.
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