I’m running to replace Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate. Everything that’s wrong with Washington had to start somewhere—it started with him. With your help, we can defeat Mitch and defend democracy. Join us: https://t.co/c4b0WAp4ji pic.twitter.com/DNLjFkHGua
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) July 9, 2019
Another veteran throws their hat into the ring. Semper Fi! I’ll do anything I can to help her, that’s for sure.
Here’s her website for donations
I am trying very hard to tune out this week. I am seriously on the edge of complete burnout. Any suggestions on how to take care of ourselves so we can continue to fight?
Open thread
plato
The needy amin whackjob is calling himself as Mr President and thanking himself, this am.
rikyrah
Clap Clap Clap….
Go, Ms. McGrath.
rikyrah
Ross Perot has died.
plato
And Serena chugs along to semis.
rikyrah
Go Serena.
Serena Williams unretouched: Tennis star, 37, goes semi-naked as she poses for sexy yet strong gold-themed shoot for Harper’s Bazaar
By REBECCA DAVISON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:28 EDT, 9 July 2019 | UPDATED: 09:50 EDT, 9 July 2019
Fair Economist
Take a vacation from politics. Relax, there are 100 million+ other Americans who also hate Trump. We can hold the fort for a couple of weeks. It’s not a critical time for someone not in a position of power, anyway. It’s six months to the first primary votes, and in any case I am confident the Democrats will pick a great candidate.
Yutsano
Self care?
Play with the dogs and ducks this weekend.
Turn off your phone.
Drink tea all weekend.
Have/make your favourite meal.
Let the rest of us shoulder this burden.
FelonyGovt
I, too, am teetering in the edge of burnout. Just got an email from Tom Steyer telling me why he’s running for president. I promptly unsubscribed.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
along these lines…
I’d like to put in a plug for Mark Kelly in AZ, Jaime Harrison in SC (I really want him to make Lindsey sweat) the Anybody But Collins fund in Maine, and let’s not forget Doug Jones. Two of those are pretty goods races for us, and we may pull off an upset or two in the others. Haven’t heard much out of Iowa, but as I understand it a good candidate would have a good shot against Breadbags Joni
rikyrah
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
ICAM..
We need to support good candidates, no matter where they are.
raven
Cue the whining about military worship.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
joel hanes
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
to make the other team spend money
And to encourage the local grassroots into something better than despairing acceptance.
And to get legitimate Democratic talking points on the air and in the papers in places in which Republican narratives have been the only game in town.
And to ask the questions that Mitch might then get asked
And to represent
namekarB
Take a tip from George Carlin who considered politics a freak show carnival to be mocked. It is a matter of prioritizing what is important in your life. Although I stay aware of politics, I hold it at arms length while family and friends I hold close.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: My sense is Kelly has a real shot in AZ and Sara Gideon has a decent chance at sending Collins packing in Maine. McGrath and Harrison will almost certainly lose, but I’m glad they’re in those races. Like you said, it makes Republicans have to spend money they’d use on offense, and I also think it’s important for Dems to field quality candidates everywhere, including places like KY and SC. As red as those states are, plenty of Democrats live there, and they need encouragement too.
raven
Goofy ass Ross Perot died.
Another Scott
@joel hanes: Yup.
“You can’t win if you don’t play!”
RCP had Democrats picking up between 8 and 46 seats, with a mean of +27 seats, on November 5. (Election day was November 6, 2018.)
Democrats picked up +41 seats, the best mid-term result in history.
We need to fight every single day, not convince ourselves that it’s too hopeless to try.
2020 has the makings of being another huge wave election for Democrats. People are even more pissed off than in 2018. We need to press every advantage we have to flip as many seats as we can.
Cheers,
Scott.
MomSense
@raven:
Ha!
How are you, your bride, and the pups?
kindness
It’s OK to step away from the game for a while. It isn’t a playground after all it’s more of a rugby scrum. So clearing one’s head from time to time helps. I still use cannabis too, well vape pens now. That helps when I get home after a tough day. Some children of the 70’s never grew up.
Steeplejack
The only thing that I have found that helps is to deliberately disconnect from media for some part of the day—not just the Internet but TV, too. As an elderly white shut-in (h/t Just Some Fuckhead) I have way too much time available to get sucked into the outrage/scandal/crisis du jour. So taking some of that time to do something else, preferably outside, is very helpful.
Also, I have been trying to be more consistent about my meditation practice, and I found an excellent, minimalist timer called Bodhi Timer (by Sirimangalo International). Just the basics, and it works even if the phone screen locks or the phone goes to sleep. (Amazingly hard to find a timer that does that.) I use the Android version.
I don’t have an Apple device, so I can’t help there. The Bodhi Meditation App in the iPhone App Store is not the same thing. It’s by a different company, and, in fact, it looks like everything I hate: affirmations, guided meditations, talking-head videos, “helpful” bullshit galore. Even “Log in with Facebook.” WTF?! But I digress. All you need is to set the length of time and get a pleasant tone at the end. I got rid of my previous timer, Insight, because they started larding it up with features and “community” bullshit. No, I do not need to see a real-time map of where everybody else in the world is meditating with Insight.
Okay, that got kind of ranty. Steep out. Om. ?
Starfish
I am intentionally limiting what I am working on even though the world is on fire.
I am reading a book. I am paying attention to some things, but I am not there attending all of the things.
oatler.
‘… when my husband and I looked at each other during the debates and we were concerned that many of the candidates were pulling a little too far left from where we are. Because we’re both moderates. You know, we’re like most Americans. We get along and we want reasonable solutions for some of these things.”
-said every blue dog Democrat ever.
Still I’ll root for anyone who can take down Yertle.
Patricia Kayden
I’d suggest taking breaks from politics as much as possible. I’ve stopped watching and reading certain podcasts, blogs and programs. Helps to keep my blood pressure low. I’m catching up on Westworld and Game of Thrones instead.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Patricia Kayden: It’s a sad world when Game of Thrones has the less disturbing politics.
germy
opiejeanne
@Steeplejack: You’re an elderly shut-in? When did this shut-in stuff start and when did you become elderly? I thought you were younger than I am.
*Looks in mirror and notices the white hair*
I am NOT elderly. I am NOT elderly. I am NOT elderly. etc.
Baud
I can actually handle the evil. I have more difficultly handling the bullshit. Especially trivial bullshit.
Ohio Mom
@Starfish: I’ve taken a similar approach. At the start of all of this, I decided my cause was the Venn diagram of Medicaid, the ACA, and disability issues.
That isn’t to say that I don’t sometimes turn my attention elsewhere — I’ve been making some calls to my Congressmen voicing my anger about the concentration camps, and last week I went to a rather motley anti-camp demonstration in downtown Cincinnati. And Ohio Dad and I make contributions to various candidates and causes.
But generally I give myself a pass on most things because that’s “not my department.” I just trust that someone else has adopted that issue.
Has this prevented bouts of burnout? No, though I think it has reduced and limited them.
germy
Steeplejack
@opiejeanne:
I am younger than you by [checks deep-state records] almost exactly two years.
And, hey, it was JSF who maligned us as elderly shut-ins!
BeBest
Create an environment at home or go on outings where you spend hours unplugged from the crap waterfall (newsfeeds, twitter feeds).
Read good novels, books on history – gets you in touch with greater humanity.
Look at classic art & design. Create art, if you can – producing beautiful things & improving your skill is extremely salubrious and makes one feel productive, where the same time spent scrolling through outrages leaves one drained & dirty.
Ohio Mom
@germy: Why would you want to spoil enjoying a perfectly good nectarine with angry thoughts? I’d rather curse those evildoers while scrubbing the toilet. It’s a better metaphor.
Jerzy Russian
@Steeplejack:
He forgot to also say “unemployed”, although that part could have been understood.
BigJimSlade
Go hiking weekly! (and check yourself for ticks if needed)
Nicole
This hilarious article about bonobo moms making sure their sons get laid may help distract from political news:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/20/pushy-bonobo-mothers-help-sons-find-sexual-partners-scientists-find
Aleta
These videos
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/what-snowball-dancing-parrot-tells-us-about-dance/593428/
Sloegin
I’d drop $100 on her campaign in a heartbeat if there was a way I’d never be put on a caller list. I’m still getting hounded for dropping $50 on Howard Dean’s campaign back in 03′.
Mike in NC
Sadly, McConnell and every other GOP senator/senate candidate can rely on unlimited cash flow from the Russian mob.
raven
@MomSense: We’re ok. The heat isn’t doing the aging dogs any favors and the boss lady has some kind of allergy issue in here eye that sent her off to the doc this morning. As for me, “I’m so short I could sit on a dime and my feet won’t touch the floor”!
How bout you?
Amir Khalid
In (association) football the playing season is over and now it’s wacky transfer rumour season. The fan channels on YouTube are full of excited nerds excitedly discussing the exciting fabrications of agents trying to gin up their exciting lad’s market value. And my Liverpool FC — champions of Europe! — have been linked by these rumours to at least half the players currently on the market. (Liverpool have a settled squad, and so far have signed just two defenders, one 16 years old and one 17. They’re probably not for the first team just yet.) It’s satisfying to know that two of Europe’s biggest clubs, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, are looking to overhaul their squads because they both got pantsed in the Champions League by Liverpool.
Lyrebird
@Steeplejack: Thanks – laughter is good too!
TaMara, I don’t know if it helps you much, but your pet pic posting has really lifted my spirits over the past few weeks. And I just have hooman babbies and not pets at home.
By going with your gut and also being willing to do those vigils, it seems to me like you have made an enormous difference in Bixby’s life, and by taking those handsome portraits of him and posting them, you have lifted far more hearts than mine.
So says an infrequent commenter who is also struggling to stay anything like positive.
Steeplejack
@raven:
Hey, there were some useful tips on the Tulip thread after your curfew. Hope you circled back and saw those.
Steve in the ATL
@rikyrah: one of my college friends will be missing our boys’ weekend because he has to go to that funeral. I’d rather hang out with my buddies, but whatever….
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Sloegin: I sent John McCain an email about the Military Commissions Act, even though I wasn’t (and amn’t) a constituent. I was on his email list for years, though not till the end. I still get snail mail from the AZ GOP
trollhattan
@Sloegin:
Can you give them the number for Dominos?
Steeplejack
@Steve in the ATL:
Can’t he send a third-party mourner? That would be appropriate.
Patricia Kayden
@plato: Isn’t that just par for the course for Orange Bigot? Yet, President Obama was the narcissist.
Another Scott
In other news, BBC: Corbyn would back Remain in a new Tory Brexit Referendum.
Baby steps, but steps in the correct direction.
Cheers,
Scott.
raven
@Steeplejack: I did and I appreciate it. I’m really thinking of my neighborhood and , since my vet is 13 miles away, that probably won’t figure in. Lots of negative feedback on the doggie uber so I 86’d that.
smintheus
Go for a long walk in the woods. It’s a miracle cure for Weltschmerz. Repeat as necessary.
Steeplejack
@raven:
Nextdoor.com and cat-wrangling?
Steve in the ATL
@Amir Khalid: the US equivalent is the college football signing period. Lots of sound and fury, signifying little of not nothing.
Steeplejack
@smintheus:
As usual, the Japanese made a thing out of it. And “forest bathing” works!
Kay
I’m a Warren supporter, but I am genuinely thrilled about this and would be happy if any of them did it:
If we want to talk about “money in politics” we can’t just ask where it came from, we have to ask “where is it spent”?
Any candidate who raises 19 million dollars is spending 19 million dollars, somewhere. They should pay at least as much attention to changing the spending structure as they do to changing the raising part.
Bernie Sanders raised tons of small donations in 2016. Except he took that money and plowed it all into the same stale system. I saw back to back tv ads for Sanders on Toledo stations. They ran all the time. I don’t even know what he thought he was buying.
We don’t have to keep doing this the same way and if we are doing it the same way it sure as hell shouldn’t cost more and more every single year.
rikyrah
Unplug.
But, even if you only post animal pictures and say Open Thread, don’t stop that. I love your animal pics. Any combination..but, the ducks have stolen my heart, I must admit.
Steve in the ATL
@Another Scott: isn’t this the first sane move by anyone in this whole debacle?
Kay
Forgot the link to the Warren article.
raven
@Steeplejack: No gatos, no, likey! We have robust neighborhood listervs and facebook pages and, besides, I’m highly visible!
Doug Gardner
@Amir Khalid: Your side deserved the hardware, and I’m glad for you that you had such a nice reward. As a Chelsea supporter, I was disappointed in the season’s results, but it’s a bit hard to complain when my club has more money than Croesus.
rikyrah
@Kay:
clap clap clap
raven
As feminist as BJ is I’m surprised Gentleman Jack isn’t getting much notice.
smintheus
@Steeplejack: Thanks for the link, an interesting article.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Kay,
just to reiterate…please let your son know that we’ll need his vote, even if overseas. If you need help getting him to the right form, just ask. He can’t apply until the beginning of the year. His FPCA is only good for one calendar year, so, taking care of it in January 2020 will set him up nicely for the entire year.
germy
Barr now says he will NOT recuse himself from the Epstein case. He must’ve gotten a phone call from drumpf.
rikyrah
Anyone gonna bring up that Mike Flynn has screwed himself out of no jail time?
Kay
@rikyrah:
We have so many candidates. They could try different things. Actually some of them could drop out and donate their money to someone who might possibly win somewhere, but I don’t make the rules :)
raven
@germy: zI read Pat Lang so people here don’t have to. Here’s his take:
rikyrah
@germy:
Lips so pursed
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Jeez, can’t believe I forgot this: Wide Open Road Wellness 20-minute meditation timer. Works on any platform because it’s a YouTube video. Three dings at the start, three dings at the end. End of story. Also available for 5, 10, 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes.
(I don’t use this because the Oontz speaker connected to my laptop goes to sleep after 15 minutes of silence when it’s running on battery. Also, I can’t remember if it’s affected by your phone going to sleep. You could try the 5-minute one and see.)
Kay
@rikyrah:
I will. I think he’s a reliable voter. A traitor, obviously, cutting and running, but a reliable voter.
Kay
@rikyrah:
This one has a lot of attention, though. Thank God for the Miami Herald. May they never go out of business like all the other local newspapers. We’ll know if it’s hinky. They’re personally invested at this point.
karensky
@Lyrebird: Ditto
Steeplejack
@germy:
Barr is doing some double-secret, fingers-crossed bullshit.
Recusing from the old case but not the new one. ??
Steeplejack
@raven:
Wow. That is really a mishmash. Thank you for your service.
Chyron HR
@raven:
“Trump would never rape a child! But Bill Clinton definitely did.”
Now that the Deplorables have spoken, what do the adults think?
rikyrah
Well well well
Yahoo News reports that the Seth Rich conspiracy theory — promoted on Fox News and other right-wing outlets — was first circulated by Russia’s foreign intelligence service. https://t.co/8C7as3co19
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 9, 2019
germy
@Steeplejack:
You’ve described his entire career.
trollhattan
@raven:
Sheesh. Somebody that boring and unoriginal should use plainer language so as to make it quicker and easier to dismiss him as an opinionated moron. At least that’s my opinion, man.
Amir Khalid
@Doug Gardner:
What do you think of Lampard coming back as manager? I know his uncle Harry rates him, but I’m not sure Frank has the experience to run the first team at a club like Chelsea.
germy
Jess
@rikyrah: Dat butt–damn! What a goddess!
cmorenc
@TaMara:
I’m struggling with the same thing – on the one hand, staying wired-into the ongoing shit-storm does cause burnout if we don’t take breaks, but OTOH part of the Trump Administration’s strategy is to fatigue and wear the public (even including the resistance) outrage down to inattentive numbness. My personal strategy is to back off a bit until past around New Year, when the election season begins to ramp up and more of the electorate as well begin to plug back in more closely.
IMHO there’s an ample portion of the electorate already irretrievably repulsed by Trump that even against GOP vote suppression efforts, we’ll simply overwhelm them come November – provided we can get/keep enough of them strongly motivated to turn out, rather than get so turned off and numbed that they don’t. Unfortunately, a corollary to this is that GOP strategists (and the Russians as well) realize this, and know they have to amp up measures to induce cynical discouragement in enough voters (in addition to those they outright suppress from voting eligibility) that their core base turning out is enough to win another narrow EC victory.
Tata
The Tour de France started over the weekend. We record and fast-forward through commercials. Even if bicycle racing is not your thing, the peloton is beautiful in motion and the views of France and other countries are breathtaking. It’s keeping me alive, essentially.
raven
@Chyron HR: Pretty amazing for someone who voted for Obama twice huh?@trollhattan: Dude is convinced that Barr is going to jail all of the resistance.
Bill Arnold
@Steeplejack:
Burnout remediation for me:
– good diet (max food colors! :-)
– exercise, light is fine, outside
– meditation, for me yoga nidra -https://www.swamij.com/yoga-nidra.htm#methods The cusp of the noga nidra state is potent.
– if noots are your thing, start with DHA (fish oil) and choline (citicholine or +uridine)
– reading good fiction, short stories fine
Starfish
@Ohio Mom: Since the very start of all this, I knew that a lot of immigration stuff would be worse. I did not know how much worse, but I started doing some type of ESL teaching/community building stuff. That is not a lot of things, but it helps people improve their language skills so that they can earn more money.
Other people know more about these issues than I do.
I was in one group that was trying to take on whatever issue floated to the top any given week, and that group died. We cannot live in a state of perpetual outrage, and we cannot develop deep knowledge when we are jumping from one issue to another every week.
Jess
I’ve turned to intense creative work as an antidote to feeling the world is on fire. Not only is it a great outlet for angst, but it gives me a feeling of hope and control–over my little corner of the world, at least. And I’m getting something productive done, adding order and beauty (I hope!) to counter the ugly chaos. I’m sure Cole’s gardening adventures are doing something similar for him; I’ve tried that in the past, but can’t stand being in the sun for long.
Also, I constantly remind myself that life has always been a struggle for living beings–why should we be exempt? This is our opportunity to be warriors for a better world!
TenguPhule
Immigration agency secretly searches millions of Americans’ ID photos
Ruckus
@Betty Cracker:
And one never knows when an upset might just happen, which can’t happen if there’s not a good candidate
Go Amy!
TenguPhule
Acosta is about to be booted out on his ass.
mad citizen
@Tata: The Tour de France is the one thing I really miss since ditching cable 3-4 years ago. A friend told me one can buy daily access, but I’ve never checked into it.
mrmoshpotato
@Tata: NBC Sports’ YouTube channel also puts up 15 minutes of the day’s stage highlights around 5PM Eastern each day.
Steeplejack
@Tata:
This. The Tour is my morning TV wallpaper. Forgot about it today. Damn.
schrodingers_cat
What helps my deep feeling of being useless with the endless assault of the crazy and the cruel, is doing something.
1. Being active, going for a walk or a run
2. Organizing my clutter
3. Cooking
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Amen brother Baud. I cannot abide by stupidity and hypocrisy. Evil I can face.
Gelfling 545
So here’s a nice thing that happened.
And here’s a funny and amazing thing.
Steeplejack
@Bill Arnold:
Thanks!
Which choline supplement do you use?
Clickable link for your yoga nidra.
lurker dean
this article about 4 maryland kids who painted racist graffiti on their school the night before graduation is something. the kicker at the end, wow.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/local/teen-graffiti-hate-crime-divides-maryland-high-school/?utm_term=.00111230ad39
trollhattan
@Tata:
Perfect segway from WWC to Le Tour this year. France gets all the eyeballs over a month.
Devastated not to have Paul and Phil doing the call. Just does not seem right (even if I love Bob for being Bob, Phil was the guy).
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@Tata: I love the Tour. Not a cyclist, but I am amazed by the athleticism and dedication of the cyclists. I was fortunate enough to spend a semester in France (cough) years ago and fell in love with the country and the people. I record it and it’s my evening unwind/white noise.
Bill Arnold
@Steeplejack:
Jarrow Citicoline CDP Choline 250mg but that’s just habit. Alpha GPC various vendors is good too and faster, but absorbs water in humid weather.
Tony Jay
@Amir Khalid:
It’s a nice comfortable feeling, isn’t it? Settled team, almost all at or approaching prime playing years. Unwanted players being moved on, exciting young players being brought in to form the basis for the next 3 to 5 years of solid improvement. Absolute confidence that the transfer team and the manager have worked out exactly who they want to get for every position that needs cover or improvement (cover for the full backs, a real creative midfielder, another quality striker plus Brewster to push the front three). Keira coming good, the Ox and Gomez like new signings after last season injured. Literally nothing to complain about, just look forward to.
This is Liverpool, and it is good.
Chyron HR
@raven:
I mean, I would believe that. I wouldn’t celebrate it, but I’d believe it.
JPL
@lurker dean: That’s not the feel good ending I expected. There’s only one hero in that story is that is Burton. I’m at the point that I can’t stand to be in the same room with trump supporters.
frosty
I don’t know if it will work for you but I pied TenguFool last night and it got less stressful after that. Too many negative waves, man.
lurker dean
@JPL: yeah, i wasn’t expecting that ending either. it’s really sad, the other kids learned nothing. poor burton.
Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan:
Phil still is the guy. It’s Paul that has died.
frosty
@raven:“I’m so short I could sit on a dime and my feet won’t touch the floor”!
Nice!! I’m still sittin’ on a stack of silver dollars.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@trollhattan: One time we were in Paris, and the last leg of the Tour went right by the front of our hotel. We weren’t following it and didn’t know much about it, but it was still spectacular to see.
Steeplejack
@JPL:
And all those white punks are racists. That’s why I laugh at the idea that we just have to wait for the old racists to die off. We keep making new ones.
They need to face serious consequences, not “community service” and a few weekends in jail. And word needs to get around that the consequences are severe. Like, say, “black kids getting in trouble” severe.
rikyrah
@TenguPhule:
Lowlife muthaphuckas
rikyrah
@Steeplejack:
UH HUH
chopper
exercise. whatever you like, if it’s pickleball or biking or whatever. just finished a 10 mile run and the feeling is excellent.
Another Scott
In other news, Reuters:
Good, good. More “power of the purse”, please.
Cheers,
Scott.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Just tested the 5- and 10-minute YouTube timer videos on my (Android) phone, and they work fine, as long as you don’t manually turn off the screen display. The “video” keeps the screen on, and the dings play at the end.
(As with any other video, if you switch to another app the timer gets cut off.)
raven
@frosty: My problem is I use too many computers so I still see it depending. . .
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
There you have it: they had 50+ votes to overturn ACA and NOW Turtle says he’ll never let it get overturned.
OBamacare is now the law of the land.
Another Scott
eemom bait – Drum at MoJo: Never forget that Nancy Pelosi is very smart:
I have my disagreements with him on occasion, but I think Drum has this exactly right.
Cheers,
Scott.
Fair Economist
@Another Scott:
Now that the Lib Dems are ahead of Labour in the polls it might be better for Corbyn to continue to waffle so Remain support could coalesce on the Lib Dems, or even better, a Lib Dem-Green joint ticket.
tybee
@Sloegin:
snail mail keeps your phone number and email address private.
Amir Khalid
@Tony Jay:
I hear she’s really good at free kicks.
VeniceRiley
@raven: My month off of here has consisted entirely of Gentleman Jack and its fandom.
It’s been a world of fun, and I’m deep into the woods on the books as well. I’ve watched the show at least *8 times through and catch something new and fresh every time. And what a fan I’ve become of Sally’s writing; but her Directing 1,2,3,7,8 was a revelation. She’s just got some great instincts. Is this what it feels like to be a straight white man? To watch every show and feel seen and understood and the central figure of what’s on the screen? Amazing. How empowering!
* – Not counting the number of times I watched the last 20 minutes of the finale, which was the most romantic thing I’ve ever seen.
opiejeanne
@JPL: My son-in-law’s mother and her husband are Trump supporters, or were initially. They are currently visiting Gettysburg and one of their friends/family members of similar mindset remarked that she wasn’t aware that Pennsylvania had so much history.
I am gobsmacked.
opiejeanne
@frosty: I pie him for a while, then I release him for a while.
Aleta
@Bill Arnold: Thank you! I never knew where that came from (or heard of yoga nidra). Just realized that the leader of a dance group I was in would sometimes talk us through ‘method 1’ exactly, as a warm up when we were tired and sore.
It was the best ever warm up for changing states, for going from morning fatigue, “don’t want to ever move,” to energetic running and other physical work with the least effort. (She omitted the word chakra, so I didn’t connect it to anything other than an amazingly effective warm up for me.) At first it sounded like a typical relaxation ‘scan,’ but it was different. It let in a feeling of space inside our bodies, and then motion and interaction became much easier; we dancers were surprised by how that happened.
I just looked for a recording of it to listen to. So far I’ve found a few, but with music or voice that I react to as over-consciously serene for me. Like the meditation timers Steep described, it needs nothing extra added in.
Thanks so much for that link!
JC
This review of the Rolling Stones in Boston will help!
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/rolling-stones-review-massachusetts-no-filter-856257/
“what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game”
opiejeanne
@VeniceRiley: I’ve put Gentleman Jack on the list. Last night I took a chance on Kim’s Convenience and were not disappointed. It runs at a different pace than most US shows, being Canadian, but the comic timing is impeccable.
VeniceRiley
@opiejeanne: Never heard of Kim’s. I’ll find it! For GJ I’ve met so many fans I’ve pen pals and may get over to Halifax next year.
Ruckus
@raven:
Relative to when I started working, I’m standing on a nickel. Seems a lot higher.
Tony Jay
@Amir Khalid:
Bloody spell check on this Kindle!!!!!
Though she does have the legs for it.
KSinMA
@Another Scott: Good!
StringOnAStick
@frosty: I did the same thing months ago and it really helped!
Another Scott
@Steve in the ATL: It seems like it.
And maybe some more – BBC:
Boris and his insane buddies have one more obstacle in their attempt for a Glorious No-Deal Brexit.
Yay-ish.
(They should get on with scrapping the whole Article 50 thing and all the rest, of course.)
Cheers,
Scott.