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


5 comments:

  1. 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?

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    1. i 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.)

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  2. I 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!

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  3. Most depressing thing I've seen in years.

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    1. i'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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