LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Sunday Straight Up" Edition
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Dear Readers,
A partial list of things I did this week. Oh, they are only related to yoga:
Completed my 30 day yoga challenge
Did not win the raffle for 30-day yoga challenge completers which would have entitled me to 6-months of free yoga (around 1K value), plus handy water bottle and t-shirt
Congratulated my husband on completing his 30 day yoga challenge and winning said raffle
Congratulated myself for feeling like I contributed to the win by doubling the odds of one of us winning by doing the challenge.
Wondered if yoga teachers get in bad moods and can be snappish, petty, or react poorly in situations such as flight cancellations, delayed subways, or annoying students.
Wondered that because I had just reacted snappishly, pettily, and overall poorly at the beginning of yoga class. I had walked in to class at the end of an afternoon when it had finally, finally, gotten slightly warmer and the skies turned blue. This particular yoga space is always a bit close and usually a bit overheated (#nyc building, semi-crappy studio) but that day it was the usual plus what felt (and smelled) like an extremely difficult yoga class had finished just prior to ours. For whatever reasons, there is a lot of Yoga Etiquette. Y.E. says you don't go throwing open windows in a yoga studio, so I went to place my mat away from other yoga folks in the front of the room so I could crack open a window right next to me. I mean one inch. A *tiny* bit. Where no one else was. Just to clear the air a mite. Yoga Etiquette also says you don't shout things out across a sparsely populated yoga room. But after I cracked the window, my hands still on the paint-chipped sash, I heard "Can you NOT do that?!" I looked at a classmate. She is frequently in my classes. She is very good at yoga btw! She continued, "Not going to happen! You are wearing a sweatshirt--take it off! I will get a cramp!" I am not kidding. It was a litany of offenses taken. And may I repeat, this lady was nowhere near me or the open window, she had no idea if I wanted to keep the window open forever or just open it for the two minutes before class, or whatever else. The others in the class (appropriately) were no way, no how gonna get in the middle of a yoga lady fight. I looked at this gal, (momentarily) took the yoga-moral high ground, feeling kind of bad that she was so stressed about her temperature control needs. And, like I said, my hands were still on the window! So I shut it. Then, I went out to the sign-in area, put my stuff away, and came back into the room with the yoga teacher who happened to be coming in at that moment. She said Hi. I said Hi. She said, "It's finally nice out!" and I said "Yeah!" and walked past her into the room, straight to my mat. A minute later she came in and said "Hello we're going to start in blah blah blah-asana. I want to give you the sense of the exterior meeting the interior blah blah coming together in ways that confront cleansing blah blah." And then she proceeded to open every window in the place, I mean like 8 loft-size windows a half a foot each, even having to tug hard on some that I don't think had been opened since the '90's. Every time I went into a forward fold or downward dog, looking backwards and upside down, i saw that yoga lady. I don't know for sure but I think yoga-eyeball-daggers were being shot at me. While I enjoy a lot of the mind-body connections of the yoga experience, I tend to focus more on the physical rather than the spiritual. However, I can tell you that in that moment, for the next 75 minutes, my mind was at peace, finally, silently understanding #InstantKarma.
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NEWS, POLITICS:
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The Problem With The Badass-Working-Parent Meme via Maclean's
BUSINESS, MEDIA, TECH
These Billion-Dollar-Women Are Changing The Face Of Silicon Valley via Marie Claire
Venture Catalysts: The 36 Women Secretly Breaking Up Silicon Valley's Old Boys' Club via Forbes
ARTS & POP CULTURE:
How 50 Female Characters Were Described In Their Screenplays via The Cut
How Women See How Male Authors See Them via The New Yorker
If Male Authors Described Men In Literature The Way They Describe Women via The Washington Post
How 'Bend It Like Beckham' Bent The Rules and Became A Girlpower Classic via EW
Molly Ringwald: What About 'The Breakfast Club via The New Yorker
Announcing The New Editor Of 'The Paris Review' via The Paris Review
What Sleeping With Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity via The New York Times
Revolution Interrupted: Why Has The NBA's Effort To Hire Female Refs Stalled? via Bleacher Report
We Need A Disney Princess To Explain How We Got So Hung Up On Disney Princesses via Slate
…AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:
No Filter: Jasmyn Lawson via WNYC Studios
Women's History Month via Giphy
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