What are you reading?

After prancing around the streets of Portland, OR in a frog suit...it is counterculture time.

"Monkey Wrench Gang," by Edward Abbey, whom I interviewed shortly before his death.

Read it three decades ago, but time to have another go-round.

 

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing".
-John Stuart Mill

 

timely

 

do frogs prance?

 

Since Merriam-webster says prancing is to spring from the hind legs, I would say "yes."

Come out next weekend and join the prancing protesting Portland frogs. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn987yqnee9o.amp

 

gotta kiss a lotta frogs to see one prance

 

prancing or dancing?

 

Well, finished the Edward Abbey book. Side-eying a Robert Crais book I grabbed at the local library. Picked it up solely because the library folk had put it in a featured spot.

"The Wanted"

 

It's not easy being green....

 

'the boy who came from the sea'

 

Just finished this:

fascinating.
The discovery of the ‘epic of Gilgamesh’
In the ruins of a library during an archeological dig in Iraq in the 1800’s, and the people involved.
And then an analysis comparing it to other literature.

 

Re-reading (do that a lot, as helps solve problems laterally): Pete Egoscue's 'Pain Free'

 

SHOULD be required reading!
Actually?
it IS one of TWO books required for my daughter's 4th grade lit class for their non fiction pick!

Here's the other one.


Somebody tell me again why we should NOT oppose Iranian militarism at least a LITTLE bit?

 

Yeah, the sort of people who decide their religion teaches overwhelming violence of action "against those who deserve no mercy" are worth keeping a careful eye on.

 

Brian Bronk's 'Advanced Muscle Rejuvenation'...

 

I may need that

 

Ach -- correction, too late to correct last post: 'Advanced Muscle Reconditioning', mixed that up with another modality acronym -- guess that's what happens when the book you're reading doesn't have a physical cover

@bisco -- AMR is one of the freakier modalities... not in woo-woo ways covered extensively in the Bodywork thread... but in that it seems like the prac's doing barely anything... until two things happen: 1) you feel super-tender in the worked area, like I bruised it -- despite the work needing no more than 6 - 7 lbs pressure (normally much less)... and 2) you can move, breathe, extend and contort the body w\ much less effort, like you're younger (in elderly people, by decades in some cases).

Used when the client has special considerations, like abnormally-low tolerance for pain; fear of heavy pressure (claustrophobia and r**e victims ime, esp when I'm male / they're female and often first time meeting + on table by a bodyworker); and heavy accumulation of mature adhesions, common in older clients. It's a neat tool, as can go where other tools can't touch, w/o risking the client's stress level and / or history of trauma survival, as only need 2 - 3 non-invasive finger pads, and no squeezing