Entries by tag: the west
Contemporary Western postural yoga projects an authenticity and unbroken ancient heritage onto the yogic tradition, while mourning the commodification, secularization and denuding of that tradition by the West. Such lamentation belies the fact that modern postural yoga is a creature of fabrication and reinvention.
--Farah Godrej
“Women have their place
in this world,
but they do not belong
in the canyons of the Colorado”
—Buzz Holmstrom in 1938
I ran across this quote while reading a current piece about sexual harassment of women in the whitewater industry. I worked in that industry for a long time, but I had the good luck to begin at the Nantahala Outdoor Center which was one of the most egalitarian river businesses out there. I had been warned but later I found out for myself about residual sexism in the Grand Canyon river industry. I was based in Flagstaff for 7 years in the 2000's, and witnessed river men behaving as if it were still 1938. Time for an update, fellas. You don't get to decide the place of women.
-p7 in The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
Lesson 1: How to Punch Big Waves and Holes
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It's an old western with Lee Marvin, really a wonderful movie about a cowboy who looses everything but maintains his center, his calm and his kindness. It seems to be about the end of the Wild West. There's a fantastic and long riding scene in which the cowboy named Monte "rides the grey down". Humorous too. I liked it. My mom complains that it was slow. She already deleted it from her direct tv.
You can check out the progress of America's increasing BMI by state, since 1985, on this govt page. The South leads the charge.
Colorado is the Rocky Mountain holdout but they are sliding too.
How could it be anything else?
You can't see out from the bottom of a canyon.
--Floyd Dominy
(Dominy died in 2010 at age 100)
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