Admittedly, I've never been to a tanning place, but I still can't fathom getting cooked under damaging false sunlight as a fun thing to do. What's next? Showering? Doing the dishes?
I don't get it. And yet, if the goal is to be in the moment (present)--and that is the goal because happiness is a state of being and can only be glimpsed in the moment--and tanning does it, so be it.
Last night in yoga class I had my first visit of a sanskrit word. Words tend to pop into my head at strange moments, words I don't know and have to look up in the dictionary. The classic example: in a heated argument with my old boss (we were screaming), I blurted out; "What does defenestrate mean?" He didn't know. I took a break and went downstairs to my office to find out. It means to murder someone by throwing him out a window.
Such a great word, defenestrate--so specific. Who knew? A week or so later the word was used on Law and Order.
Which brings me to coincidence. Did you ever notice that things often coincide and align in a magical (freaky) way? This morning I was chatting via facebook with an old friend and I reminded her of the foot fetish guy we met after going to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. This evening, an author was on NPR talking about his book about desire and aversion--fetishes. The first example was a guy with a foot fetish. Have I mentioned that I don't like feet at all? Yuck.
Maybe I'll tell my prostitute/foot fetish story tomorrow.
The word of the day (from last night's yoga class) is: abhyasa. It means constant practice. Yoga on and off the mat. Yoga, by the way, means union, yoke, to join together: body/mind/spirit. Tanning bed or shower, we all have a duty to find our way to presence. I think I'll grab some playing with my dog.
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