tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19041374.post6716679621811450145..comments2023-10-24T09:17:19.207-04:00Comments on The Perpetual Beginner: Alarming (and not so alarming) ThingsPerpetual Beginnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625596315528064536noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19041374.post-40162503713694740242008-03-15T10:49:00.000-04:002008-03-15T10:49:00.000-04:00Good to have you here again, Elizabeth.The dog att...Good to have you here again, Elizabeth.<BR/><BR/>The dog attack/yoga juxtiposition <I>was</I> rather strange. I don't think too much real stretching happened after the teacher went tearing out.<BR/><BR/>Your commentary on the ideas the Break-a-thon comment gave you had me giggling. If you want to actually find out, I had a post on it around August of 2006. Otherwise I won't spoil the pictures.<BR/><BR/>I know what you mean about some levels of flexibility just being wrong. Some of the Taekwondo people can get into positions that make my hindbrain go "Meep!" because the human body just shouldn't be able to do that.<BR/><BR/>As to college, my extended family views education as extraordinarily important. If we absolutely couldn't pay for Robbie and Aaron's college, my parents would. As it is, they're sticking money in the college funds regularly. If we're financially able, I want my kids to have the opporutinity my parents gave me - to be able to get the education for whatever career they wish, without being burdened with debt. Rob's parents couldn't do that for him (though they would have if they could), and it took us a decade to pay off his college loans.Perpetual Beginnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09625596315528064536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19041374.post-62952737669509772412008-03-15T02:01:00.000-04:002008-03-15T02:01:00.000-04:00Ahhh, ANOTHER place I "posted" in my mind and yet ...Ahhh, ANOTHER place I "posted" in my mind and yet come back to find that I did not post at all.<BR/><BR/>First, as a writer, love the justiposition of the idea and ethos of Yoga with the whammy of "dog attacked and killed the other" - And the whole, children and the other dog dying likely, I'd be frozen stiff thinking about it and going, "and I'm supposed be getting relaxed and stretchy here" - just, "Partner arrested for thier pot possession" would be a Yoga emerg call I am expecting, while dogs fighting to the death? Kind of blew me away.<BR/><BR/>See, again, "tore groin muscle" and the word, "Break-a-thon" and "holder flinched" brings SO many ideas to my head, like, "you were ripping off thier face with your leg?" Actually TOO many ideas which is why I am clearly NOT asking what a "break-a-thon" is though I assume it is martial art related and hopefully involves breaking things instead of doing the 17 death strikes and finding out how many bones you broke.<BR/><BR/>Well, last time I could touch my toes was sometime around puberty, and with Marfans' that isn't going to change (well, maybe I can touch with one arm, the scoliocis (sic) closer one). In my boxing class a just retired pro ballet dancer is doing the both hands and arms WAY Past her feet which is just, wrong, in that, if I can't do it then no one should kind of grade school mentality.<BR/><BR/>You sound like good parents, my parents, one summer trip said, half way through the trip that if I wanted any college help, we would have to go home now and that would couldn't see the grand canyon. I, at like 11 chose the grand canyon and true to thier word, I gots no help, BUT did see a big hole in the ground. So, personally, I think your plan of "help them get scholarships" AND "have a fund" seems WAY better. I will send picture of grand canyon.Elizabeth McClunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03627373214555333537noreply@blogger.com