What are you reading?
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@AdagioM said in What are you reading?:
@Mary-Anna Are you enjoying the tai chi?
I am!
My experience with Tai Chi was near zero. I've been doing some videos that are more fitness-oriented than true to the practice, I think, which I think of as more like fitness club yoga than like the yoga you'd do at an ashram. By contrast, this class is being taught by someone who's been practicing under a master for something like twenty years. Some of his more advanced students attend the beginners class with us, and even they have studied for quite a few years. Anyway, it seems pretty authentic.
I also find it challenging to follow, not least because of my regrettable tendency to confuse left and right, and I agree that it helps tamp down the chatter in my head that never goes away. It doesn't feel all that challenging yet physically, other than to my balance, but I suspect that I'm working harder than I realize. I'm also meeting people in my new town, which is a big bonus for me.
@Mary-Anna All good things! I find that there is always something I can do better than I’ve been doing it. Now I’m concentrating on breath, and coordinating breath to movement. Also working on posture, and making all movements flow from one to another. It’s almost like dancing.
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A book recently published by a lifelong friend.
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Good stuff here. If you look up an ingredient you’ll find a list of other ingredients that go well with it. Classic combinations are highlighted and there will be commentary from chefs and such.
It’s geeky but I really like it!
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Just started I Cheerfully Refuse, one of the many books I bought during the North of Boston Independent Bookstore scavenger hunt recently.
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@Mary-Anna All good things! I find that there is always something I can do better than I’ve been doing it. Now I’m concentrating on breath, and coordinating breath to movement. Also working on posture, and making all movements flow from one to another. It’s almost like dancing.
@AdagioM @Mary-Anna I tried Tai Chi several times and passed out each time. I guess it is not for me.
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@Piano-Dad said in What are you reading?:
I have never read any of Ursula K. Le Guin, so I'm starting the Left Hand of Darkness.
I've had that one on my bedside table for a while. I read and admired The Dispossessed many years ago, and I've taught from her book on writing, Steering the Craft, but The Left Hand of Darkness is her most famous book, so I really want to read it and The Wizard of Earthsea.
Also, I've started taking Tai Chi and my teacher recommended her interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, so I just grabbed the ebook.
@Mary-Anna @Piano-Dad #booksky #BannedBookSkyClub over on Blue Sky is reading The Left Hand of Darkness in June. I might use that as
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@Mary-Anna @Piano-Dad #booksky #BannedBookSkyClub over on Blue Sky is reading The Left Hand of Darkness in June. I might use that as
an excusemotivation.@rustyfingers said in What are you reading?:
@Mary-Anna @Piano-Dad #booksky #BannedBookSkyClub over on Blue Sky is reading The Left Hand of Darkness in June. I might use that as
an excusemotivation.Ooh! Good to know!
And it sounds like tai chi is not for you! I had that experience with karate, but so far tai chi is good.
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@rustyfingers said in What are you reading?:
@Mary-Anna @Piano-Dad #booksky #BannedBookSkyClub over on Blue Sky is reading The Left Hand of Darkness in June. I might use that as
an excusemotivation.Ooh! Good to know!
And it sounds like tai chi is not for you! I had that experience with karate, but so far tai chi is good.
Finished The Left Hand of Darkness in time to return it to the library. Slow start due to world building. It picked up half-way through. Use of anthropological artifacts throughout.
Starting Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong.
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I just read "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" by Carlo Cipolla. It's online (see link below) and it's a fast read.
An enjoyable and interesting read. I can't say I agree with his postulate that stupidity is built-in, but otherwise a clever essay. It does seem applicable to current events.
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Last week I got these preloved:
The Garden Room (1986) is a bit of a coffee table book which I've flicked right through to look at the photos for ideas. We'd love to add one on to the house.Today at £2.95 each...
The Complete Gardner (1994) seemed a very practical book with an excellent section on types& construction.
The OS Road Atlas (1990) is pure indulgence in these days of car satnav & phone maps. Ring roads and motorways may change but it has topographic detail that I love and is perfect for planning road trips.
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“The Always Already Absent Present”. — recent poetry by Anne Tardos
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“The Always Already Absent Present”. — recent poetry by Anne Tardos
@RealPlayer said in What are you reading?:
“The Always Already Absent Present”. — recent poetry by Anne Tardos
Looks interesting. 7 words in 7 lines. Guessing there are no rhymes.
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Fifty-One
Given the situation we find ourselves in
We often wonder how we got here
Those who claim that life is short
Must be either insatiable and or megalomaniacal
Or they have a skewed view of
Things which is more than understandable
Given the situation we find ourselves in
