Category Archives: Small Matters

The 2021 Sadboi Playlist

These songs can save lives. Please enjoy. Or wallow. Or whatever happens when you listen.

The 2021 Sadboi Playlist

These songs can save lives. Please enjoy. Or wallow. Or whatever happens when you listen.

Growing Calm: drawing leaves in lockdown

Drawing leaf patterns causes me to move through space with plantlike intelligence.

Growing Calm: drawing leaves in lockdown

Drawing leaf patterns causes me to move through space with plantlike intelligence.

About Gaga

“We’re still trying to float, but we’re using too much effort.”

About Gaga

“We’re still trying to float, but we’re using too much effort.”

Try or Try Not: Yoda vs. Yoga

“Do or do not; there is no try.” Deep, false thoughts from an orientalist 70s puppet.

Try or Try Not: Yoda vs. Yoga

“Do or do not; there is no try.” Deep, false thoughts from an orientalist 70s puppet.

Yoga for Climate Action: Svadyaya

Je me sens coupable parce que j’ai l’habitude
C’est la seule chose que je peux faire avec une certaine certitude

-Lhasa de Sela

Yoga for Climate Action: Svadyaya

Je me sens coupable parce que j’ai l’habitude
C’est la seule chose que je peux faire avec une certaine certitude

-Lhasa de Sela

Yoga for Climate Action: Santosha

I can decide what I give
But it’s not up to me what I get given
Unthinkable surprises about to happen
But what they are…
It’s not up to you
Well it never really was

-Bjork

Yoga for Climate Action: Santosha

I can decide what I give
But it’s not up to me what I get given
Unthinkable surprises about to happen
But what they are…
It’s not up to you
Well it never really was

-Bjork

Yoga for Climate Action: Saucha

Lying in a bathtub, holding to the sides
Frozen in the steam and everything to hide
Deep in the bathtub, make it good and hot
Make it hot enough to wash everything off

-Mark Sandman

Yoga for Climate Action: Saucha

Lying in a bathtub, holding to the sides
Frozen in the steam and everything to hide
Deep in the bathtub, make it good and hot
Make it hot enough to wash everything off

-Mark Sandman

Yoga and the Art of Lower Back Maintenance

We do not have to transcend the ‘world of dust’ (saha) in order to go to some dust-free world called nirvana. Suffering and nirvana are of the same substance. If we throw away the world of dust, we will have no nirvana.”
–Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching

Yoga and the Art of Lower Back Maintenance

We do not have to transcend the ‘world of dust’ (saha) in order to go to some dust-free world called nirvana. Suffering and nirvana are of the same substance. If we throw away the world of dust, we will have no nirvana.”
–Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching

Breaking Free by Getting Jailed in Whiting, Indiana

My arrest didn’t feel like a risk, it felt like a transaction. It was a transaction I felt called to make, but it doesn’t feel like the most meaningful step I’ve taken against the climate crisis.

Breaking Free by Getting Jailed in Whiting, Indiana

My arrest didn’t feel like a risk, it felt like a transaction. It was a transaction I felt called to make, but it doesn’t feel like the most meaningful step I’ve taken against the climate crisis.