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London attractions: Enjoy a birthday bash at HMS Belfast
Published: Tuesday 12th of March 2013
If you are looking for fun things to do in London, why not hop on board the HMS Belfast, which is moored on the River Thames.
This historic ship was used in active military engagements up until the 1960s, and was used in the destruction of the battle cruiser Scharnhorst, the Normandy Landings and the Korean War.
It celebrates its 75 year anniversary on St Patrick's Day, March 17th, and it is holding a number of family activities to celebrate the occasion.
So if you are around on March 16th-17th, there'll be a number of weekend activities for you to get your teeth into.
Highlights of the weekend include gun firing at various times throughout the day, medallion making sessions for the kids and live radio sessions.
In addition, guests can enjoy some live music performances and some Irish-themed food onboard.
The events are suitable for all ages and give visitors a chance to delve more into the history behind this iconic battleship.
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UAHC To Sponsor Healing Conference in Colorado Springs
The leaders of over 50 Reform congregations from around North America will gather in Colorado Springs this April to take part in The Synagogue as a Center for Healing and Caring, a two-day conference sponsored by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in association with the Kalsman Institute of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Participants will explore issues related to health, bereavement, and healing in the hopes of transforming their synagogues into warm, caring spaces where congregants can worship, celebrate, and mourn.
The conference, the third in a series of UAHC-sponsored seminars on healing and caring, will be held on April 22-23, 2001 at the Antlers Adam's Mark Hotel in downtown Colorado Springs. With workshops in areas such as mental health, eating disorders, self-destructive behaviors, helping those with special needs, and healing rituals and liturgies, the conference aims to give the clergy members and lay leaders in attendance the means to raise awareness of these areas in their own congregations.
Guided by a team of top-level Reform rabbis and professionals, participants will have the chance to share ideas, explore and discuss successful healing and caring programs currently in operation in UAHC synagogues, participate in panel discussions and workshops, and hear keynote addresses. The conference?s facilitators and workshop leaders include:
"The Synagogue as a Center for Healing and Caring will help raise awareness of issues that impact every family in every Reform congregation," says Rabbi Richard Address, Director of the UAHC's Department of Jewish Family Concerns, and one of the conference?s organizers and facilitators. "Ultimately, this helps us strengthen the personal relationships which form the foundation of our congregational life."
Those seeking information can contact the UAHC's Department of Jewish Family Concerns by phone at (212) 650-4294, by fax at (212) 650-4239, and by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Union of American Hebrew Congregations is the central body of the Reform Movement in North America, and unites 1.5 million Reform Jews in over 900 synagogues in the United States and Canada. UAHC services include camps, music and book publishing, outreach to unaffiliated and intermarried Jews, and the Religious Action Center in Washington, DC.
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Yes, I'm a Serious Yogi, But I Still Do These 6 Things.
I hope that my beloved elephant editors will still love me after this one.
I feel like I'm writing a blog that straight away sets me up for non-success with my fellow yoga and wellness community.
Yet here it is—a list of six things that I still do even though I consider myself a die-hard yogi.
1. Drink alcohol. For me, figuring out how to be a moderate drinker is, and probably always will be, a lifetime dance.
Alcoholism runs in my family and I've seen it destroy lives. Still, I can't deny that a pint of the hoppiest ale that I can stand or a glass of an interesting wine turns me on. So, I've dedicated myself to the practice of mindful drinking—almost as much as I've dedicated myself to my mindful yoga practice.
2. I get angry. I might be the Hulk. Cute, friendly, bubbly even. Yet, wow, am I ever a Scorpio— because the people who truly know me understand that I can adrenaline rage with the best of them.
And it's not that I don't want to change; that I'm not seeking self-betterment (or enlightenment, for that matter). Because I do (want to change and be enlightened)! Yet I have a temper. Yep, there it is.
3. I Enjoy Exercise Sans Yoga Mat. (Sans as in without.) I received my Johnny-G Spinning certification in my third trimester of pregnancy—for real. (It was pretty hilarious for those present, trust me.) I also have a Nordic Track, circa 1980-whatever, and I regularly hike on trails in the gorgeously hilly terrain where I live. So, yoga mat, I love you, I need you—but I'm seeing someone else.
4. I eat bacon—and I like it. This is the one on the list that I think might divorce me from the other elephants, the ones who make my everyday life special. Long story cut short (and, if you know me in the slightest, this is extremely difficult for me to do), I was a vegetarian for well over a decade—actually, my husband was almost afraid to marry me when I began eating meat right before our nuptials. (Remember, ladies, men don't want you to change after they've proposed.) I digress.
Again, the long and short of it is (I warned you that this was going to be a challenge) that, as much as it disturbs me, my body needs meat. There you have it.
Considering that when I was a vegetarian—to the utmost degree, mind you—one of my biggest turnoffs was other solo veggie-eaters who wore leather or ate gelatin (you get the point), it's important to keep in mind that I've long been a proponent of using the entire animal if you do need utilize this form of protein within your diet.
As it turns out, (uncured) bacon (from the farm down the street) is delicious. (I promise, I love—and respect—you, fellow vegan elephants!)
5. I curse—like a sailor. I embarrass my husband, yet sadly not myself. I'm not sure if I need explain this one further.
6. I listen to angsty music. Recently I shared on Facebook that my two-and-a-half year old loves hard-core bands like Rage Against the Machine—and that this has re-connected me with my more rebellious nature (which, to be honest, she innately shares with me—thank God). Anyways, this little Facebook status update of mine didn't receive much commentary (not unusual, I'm a geek)—but it did get me thinking about my sharing of this personal information, especially since I rarely divulge much about my daughter in writing.
Here's the conclusion that I've come to—I would rather my tiny lady hear music that poses important questions (although potentially riddled with occasional cuss words) than to never hear it at all. So there you go. (Sorry, yogis.)
I'm not sure why I'm sharing this with you. I'm not an exhibitionist—I can barely wear a tank top while hiking on the towpath.
I guess it's because one of my major pet peeves in life is people who are not authentic. So here it is, laid out on the table—a few things about the "real" me, a yoga lover.
Of course, another reason that I wrote this is that I honestly get extremely tired of yogic snobbery—the this-is-the-only-way-life-exists-and-one-can-achieve-enlightenment mentality.
I'm okay with who I am, maybe you aren't, and I'm thick-skinned enough for that to bother me—for a minute or two before I mentally tell you to bugger off.
Regardless, there are some things that people won't easily cough up—because they're afraid you'll judge them.
How about this: I promise not to tell on you if you won't tell on me. (Because we all have parts of our personality that we don't want put on display.)
But I will, put mine on display. But only for you. If you don't tell.
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165 Responses to "Yes, I'm a Serious Yogi, But I Still Do These 6 Things."
I have never been so inspired by someones authenticity. In a town where people judge many of your moves, I find this article motivating me to be my real self and be damn proud! NAMASTE.
Thank you, Ally! I'm thankful that you got the entire point of why I wrote and shared this—we have nothing in life if we don't accept our real selves!
Jennifer, I think you're my twin Scorp sister from another mister! I feel like I wrote this article with the exception of the bacon part. I really do try to avoid bacon and red meat. Makes me feel bloated. Haha! Thanks so much for this amazing article!
you are still an elephant to me <3
Awwwww, shucks. Thank you so much <3
Love this. If I had a daughter, I'd want her to be you!!! Or a sista! (And PS, I also use styrofoam cups for my smoothies, take that yogic snobs!!)
hahahaha! ha!
Oh, Pat, thank you for this. muah.
Noooo, using styrofoam out of "choice" is nothing to be proud about. Please, that's embarrassing to everyone here. Contributing to landfill abuse and excess pollution on purpose, for no reason other than your own selfish needs, that is not comparable to eating meat, swearing, or letting a child listen to strong lyrics and learn about the real world. Its worse. Please figure out another way to eat those smoothies, Pat, unless you are re-using that same cup every day for 365 days. Come on. Your small comment isn't a reaction to yogic snobbery, its selfish. Please think about OTHERS now and future generations when you make your choices. I'm not perfect, not a yogi, and usually embrace these articles showing how you can be good yet not perfect, but learning from mistakes and self-reflection is not the same as bad choices. I hope that you think of me and my future children trying to enjoy nature next time you CHOOSE to use styofoam, I hope nature an the ozone layer still exists for them by the time they are born. Please switch to glass, for all of us, not just me.
This is a great article, authentic is definitely the word. It's something I have previously and to a lesser degree still struggle with. Before I "found" a more eastern mindset and an a more in tune with nature type lifestyle I was smoking a pack and a half a day, eating nothing but pepperoni pizzas, bacon cheese burgers, etc. I fell in love with a vegetarian and it changed my life. (For the better! Mostly ;p) I pressured myself to match her devotion and actions. I quit smoking (for a couple months), I went veg with her and even full on vegan for several months, I quit gambling on playing pool and cards for about a year…
The thing was the pressure to perform up to the "right" level was destroying me, the pressure of not being good enough, always needing to keep up with her and feeling weak when I couldn't. As time has passed I've slowly learned I don't need to be the picture perfect perfection of any movement. I'm just me and I'm more mindful than ever and always growing, even if I keep some vices for the time being. I still smoke (American Spirits — Woo hipster), I occasionally eat meat (It's crazy how much better local, real meat is than the bullshit we're trained to like from fast food). And I love to play cards (I also don't even think gambling is a "vice" per say in the EJ realm).
We all are who we are right now in this second. Maybe next week, month, or year we'll be somewhere else but that's irrelevant right now. It's just been a hard and continuing process to not only accept myself for where I am and who I am right now but everyone else too. I can't say "I accept that I smoke but refuse GMOs because they are bad for you" and turn around and say "Eww look at that girl eating a Baconator from Wendy's that's disgusting" We can't know where anyone else is on their path.
So that lengthily and un-eloquent story leads me to the fact that I'd hope you wouldn't be judged for being brave enough to expose yourself here. There are anyway nay-sayers in every sect but I feel like this is a safe haven to be vulnerable while we learn about ourselves and each other. We can all use those reminders too of "Hey look, I'm not perfect either! It's okay!"
I can't tell you how much I loved reading your response, Andrew. I think you've just shown that you're much braver than I.
I relate to, empathize with, and agree with what you're saying. This is one of the major reasons that I don't use the word "never." Never say never, because it'll bite you in the arse.
As far as being a meat eater in a largely vegan community, I also whole-heartedly agree with your sentiments, particularly that the type of meat you purchase and eat, as well as the type of farming you support, relates directly to both environmental and personal health. Again, I don't want to judge others, as I stated and so did you, but I don't eat fast food. I don't buy my red meat (what I really need in my personal diet) from the regular ol' grocery store—there are so many more options out there than people realize or are willing to put the effort into finding. As far as cost goes, I've been pretty poor at various points in my life, and I always chose to spend the little money that I had on good food and exercise/health related items/activities.
Good for you for being open enough to try other avenues of living, but, even more, for coming home to yourself. Sometimes vacations aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Sat Nam, I love this article, thank you. I am a Kundalini Yoga Teacher and have been through the same things as Andrew Paciocco and yourself, I have come to the conclusion that I can aspire to some of the things but as a human being I cant change habits of a life time (53 yrs) overnight. I, like him, still smoke, still eat meat sometimes, still drink alcohol and can get very angry and use some fairly colourful language! I, however, over a long period of time have noticed, I can no longer drink a bottle or 2 of wine (used to be normal-every day). I am contented with just 1 beer or glass of wine and not everyday. I don't eat meat every day anymore, but still have a smoking addiction. So I think I am getting there, slowly, one step at a time. Like Andrew, I was beating myself up for not being "perfect" overnight. Now, I say, "everything is as it should be" and it will evolve over time as it should. Jennifer, you are awesome just the way you are
I am so honored by your response.
I've also found that as I get older what "moderation" is changes. (Like you I don't eat meat every day, etc.)
Again, just thank you so much for your kind words and open heart.
<3 so you are LIVING! Yogis tend to be so "rigid" with the imposition of lifestyle choices. I love that you said what everyone else is so afraid to say! I tell students all the time, live your life. Enjoy things moderately and in balance. This is the key and everyone's experience here is unique. It's not a cookie cutter system. It's not one size fits all to reaching the state of awareness within oneself. We get there through hardships and living a real life. And this is what you have expressed here. Thank you for your openess and authenticity beautiful one.
Thanks, Andie!
Your comments have sincerely touched and inspired me.
Oh god, you for me!!! A real authentic. I have such a difficult time with other aspects of living yoga such as 'Life' and where everything fits in without feeling the guilt or it affecting me and feeling the effects. You rock. I Love this article! Namaste
Namaste, Jade!
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your authentic self and for your timely post. I just signed up for yoga teacher training in the fall and part of my delay in fulfilling this dream is that I didn't think I was "kumbaya" enough. I have so much in common with your list! And I've slowly let go what I thought I "should" be and I am embracing who I am and what I can bring to the yoga community. I love this post! so cheers (with a glass of wine) and pass the bacon. Thank you!!!
Thank you, Linda!
I have to tell you that one of my absolute favorite people in my own teacher training (and someone who really lives yoga) felt the same way as you describe.
Have fun and good luck!
Hahaha! A lot of us are like that. It's called life "balance".
Love this. I am a yoga teacher and a writer as well and I, too, do ALL of these things you write about, plus a few more to boot. My newest favorite t-shirt reads "yoga rebel" and I accept that label wholeheartedly. I spent far too many decades believing I was never "good enough"…whatever the hell that means…and have finally come to the conclusion that not only am I "good enough" just as I am, WHO I am is pretty damn good. I don't spout mindless yogic platitudes in my classes, or anywhere else for that matter and I have no tolerance for those who do and then turn around and behave abhorrently. I say "hellz yes" to authenticity and screw the effed-up expectations of others.
If you lived in my town, we would undoubtedly be friends. Of this I am quite sure.
Tracie, thanks for your comments! Isn't it ironically funny that those of us who are able to admit that we aspire to walk and live the yogic path, yet are, unfortunately, still mortal human beings, are deemed rebels? I'll take it 😉 Thanks again.
Love this article and am in exactly the same boat- saaaame!!! I think the best service we can do is exactly what you're doing- be authentic! There is such an overload of yoga- snobbery, it drives me mental, so hopefully every time a yogi gets a little more vulnerable and honest about who they really are, it will inspire others to drop that veil of perfection, which is a load of bullshit anyways, and do the same!!!! XXX
That's just it, no one's perfect. I think of the yoga leaders who have "fell from grace." Each time people are shocked that someone is still human. (not that I'm condoning certain behaviors, mind you)
Thank you, Kelli!
Ditto all of the above except #1, but I can replace that with 20+ years of smoking (with about 10 yrs overlap with my yoga practice). However, I don't smoke anymore :). Still, we are indeed, human. I applaud you for putting it out there. I laugh at myself every time I curse someone out who pisses me off (when I'm alone, of course). It's all good. We are all good at heart. Namaste, yogi.
Thank you! I could add several others to this list if that would help hee hee
Love this. Permission to just be who we are! On a path to become better but loving the sh*t out of ourselves in the process. Even the meat eating, angry version of us who loves to swear and drink sometimes.
Yee ha to you Jennifer S White.
Thank you, Hannah! Your feedback inspires me!
Yes! *fist bump* I love your authenticity. I feel so often like I straddle some fence and get so pissed because I can't decide who put it up (was it ME?)! I live in rural midwest, by choice (for some reasons too numerous and personal-boring to detail). I tried to fit in for the first 2-3 years…now, I embrace who I am, and am working on being authentic. I know I freak people out with my liberal views, unschooling family, organic CSA, yoga group, 4-H kids, Doula, livestock farming, rebel and outspoken activist, wine-drinking self. That is OK. This is my life to live. In the words of a very dear friend. Everyone is doing the best they can at that given moment.
Ooooo you sound fascinating to have a glass of wine with 😉
Keep on doing exactly what you're doing! (And thanks for sharing some of your thoughts with me.)
Me too, in Boganville, Australia. (red-neck country to you). No kids, but not giving in to the paradigm the rest of them get from TV.
welcome to being a normal human being…isn't it wonderful?
can't complain.
Yoga, like Buddhism for me, is a path, not a destination. To say that a yogi who hasn't completely forsaken meat and drink isn't a "real yogi" is like saying someone who plays football at the college level isn't a "real athlete" because he's not in the pros, or a gymnast who ranks as #1 in the US isn't a "real gymnast" because she isn't a gold-winning Olympian, or a student at a community college isn't a "real student" because they aren't going to an Ivy League school and has not won various academic awards. To use a phrase from the founder of my lineage: the journey is the goal. Anyone who says otherwise is (literally; absolutely no metaphor or ambiguity in saying this) selling something…and what they are selling isn't the authentic thing. Kudos for being human!
Thank you, Kevin!
It's interesting. Most of the feedback (nearly all, actually) that I've received has been hugely positive. Yet here's the thing that I find funny—I didn't write a list of all the things that I do every single day that show I'm walking the talk when it comes to my commitment to my yoga practice and yogic lifestyle. Those things are shown, first of all, in the other numerous articles that I write almost daily and in who I am. I'm just not afraid of the dark anymore. (Thank you, yoga studies, for that.)
Thanks again for your commentary!
There is a difference between "being afraid of your own darkness" and enabling other people to stay in theres. There are tons of bogus gurus out there set up to accumulate followers by letting them do "whatever they want and it's still ok". But it's not in the least beneficial to other people's soul development.
It's good to not fear the dark, it's ok that you eat meat and drink, and yes there are methods to transmute such things spiritually (It's called tantra and it's typically used by Westerners as a scapegoat to continue their selfish habits); However the transmutation does need to be taken seriously if it's going to be practiced. It's a serious spiritual practice to eat meat consciously, and it is not easy to do. The attitude of this article is "It's ok! I'm a serious Yogi but see how I do all these worldly things!" Again, all those things are ok, but you do need a title change from "serious yogi" to "aspiring yogi" because all these qualities you listing describe the latter and thus you are misleading people into believing they are the qualities of a "serious yogi" or that a "serious yogi" shouldn't be at least attempting to transmute their own darkness.
Most of us are not ready or willing to become real yogis. There are renunciations which are unacceptable in this day and age and culture.
This all makes wonderful sense and your honesty leaves no room for judgementss, but to me this all highlights the crux of health and spiriituality, self-bettterment and discipline. Certainly, as we can so see, they can co-exist, interdependently and exclusively with opposing, or at least differening aims, buut still with some sense of peace aand stability. You can live life on the edge, but you still need some kind of rest. What of harmony and prosperity, though? More practically speaking, not posing a problem to yourself or with the fellows of your community is one thing, but what does it mean to achieve excellence and mastery in the eyes of observers and opponents, alike. Of course, such ambitions are not awarded to all, but saftey and success and peace and prosperity and all harmony can be.
What a wonderful article Jennifer! I believe that if there were more people in the world that are content with being themselves and unafraid to openly express that the world would be a much better place! I'm a yoga teacher too and whilst I have been vegetarian for over 23 years I do still swear, drink beer &/or wine and listen to music/watch films that most would not consider conducive to a 'yogic lifestyle'. And I also have a temper at times. However, all of this is me & I am content with who I am and whatever I may become in the future. I'm glad to know there are so many people in the world already who accept themselves for who they are. Thank you for your inspirational article. Namaste
You know, Kim, I see it like this—if I can't own who I am, then how will I ever become wiser and more "evolved" on my path towards enlightenment?
Thanks so much for your kind and generous feedback.
I am guilty of all these. I too respect all my fellow vegan yogis… on the topic of eating meat, I once read a brilliant blog post that one does not necessarily have to be vegan to practice 'ahimsa', and that other incredible actions such as volunteer charity work are equally as powerful, and that our vegan yogi friends shouldn't judge us meat-eaters.
My take is this, because this seriously is the shortened version (I had to eat meat for my own health)—non-harming extends to me too.
Thanks for your feedback!
woah so never thought of it that way before. non-harming extends to me too..
i really needed to hear that. I am starting to accept that I need to start eating meat again, as much as it makes me feel uncomfortable
Thanks for the food for thought
Lovely article. So many people are 'fake' in the yoga world and profess to be soooo perfect but they're not. A teacher once berated me about my messy house and eating habits – in my defence I have 3 jobs and little time for domesticity – only to find when I stayed at her house once that it was worse than mine! Yoga will change you, it will improve you, but it isn't an overnight thing. As I tell my students 'I still get angry… I'm just not quite such a bitch when I do' 😀 One thing that is missing in our interactions with others is authenticity – drop the masks, be nice, be yourself. I don't want to live in a 'pink, fluffy world', I want to live with all of life's beauty and those parts that are not so beautiful too, I like contrast and I love yoga.
Yes yes and yes! (And shame on that teacher.)
I always say (in regards to dropping the mask) that we need to come out and play!
Gosh, I so needed this article. Each day I rise and am left with guilty leftovers of the day before…And all because I had a few craft beers? Or because my boyfriend fried us up some Tipp City bacon. I love you and I love what you just shared. Thank you for helping this yogi see her "guilty pleasures" as not so guilty.
The real downfall for many of us is the guilt (not these other things, and I write about this frequently.)
Guilt brings us down—and it causes us to repeat cycles that maybe we wouldn't if we weren't continually re-pigeon holing ourselves.
Rise and shine—it's a new day, a new you, filled with new opportunities! Thank you so much for bringing your authentic self into this discussion.
Lol, I LOVE your authenticity – totally agree with you and many of the other comments. Thanks for putting yourself out there!! xx
Thank you, Eva!
What does "die hard yogi" mean in this place and age anyway? I wonder what it means to the writer. Most "elephants" are certainly not himalayan mountain cave ascetics…so….what?
I feel like you are watching me and writing about it! Wow it is so nice to here from an authentic person…go on with your bad self!
Thanks, Kelli! It's great that we're all sticking together 😉
I'm with you.
Lovely post! Thank you for your authenticity. So much of the yoga journey is about recognizing the parts of yourself that you may not be proud of and integrating those parts with whole. One love!
Thank you! And you're absolutely right. The whole, you can't have the light without the dark, flipside of the coin, etc is all true. I think one of the wisest things I've figured out about life, and the players in it, so far is that nothing is black and white, rather it's shades of grey.
She's got nothing not to be proud of.
I'm with you on what you say. I don't see anything wrong in doing yoga, getting angry and eating bacon. If it's what your body is asking you, go for it. As for those emotions, well, better out than in. Keep on being yourself and be proud of it.
Thank you, Alma! I try my darndest to adhere to a policy of honesty, especially with myself. If I can't be truthful about myself and my own needs, then how can I ever help make the world a better place for my daughter to live in?
Liked your post. The other day I had someone tell me that I wasn't the "typical" yogi. What is a typical yogi these days? Thank you for sharing your quirks
Thanks for your response, Casey. I posted the link on an earlier comment, but I just wrote a blog called "Warning! Accepting Your Flaws Might Lead to Personal Growth and Change," and I wrote it to share what I think a "real" yogi is. (And I believe that yogis are as free as anyone to be quirky and "atypical"—yeah, what does that mean? 😉 Thanks again.
You are a normal person doing your best to live mindfully. isn't that what a true yogi is? Thanks for this.
I believe so! Thanks for your feedback!
Beautiful post. From the drinking to the swearing, it could have been written about me!
Thank you!
good to know it's not just me
Great article. Essentially you are saying you are human and that you have multiple aspects to who you are. As we all do
That's exactly it and thank you for your feed back. What a boring place the world would be without our quirks.
Sounds like you are, well, human! Flawed, imperfect, striving, self-aware (which sets you apart from many of your fellow travelers). And you like bacon!! If you weren't already married (and my wife wasn't so handy with firearms) I would consider a proposing!!
Anyone who disagrees with you should be forced to wear those see-thru Lululemons for month! (I share your adrenaline rage issues)
Well I like that threat! I'll have to keep that one in my see-through back pocket for a rainy day.
You forgot CHOCOLATE!
Oh, I didn't forget chocolate, Niki. Never you fear, dark chocolate is one of the necessary food groups. Hmmm, maybe that's one of the other hundred things I do that I should have added to this list? 😉
I am pretty sure I belong to your tribe.That's for inspiring me to be myself.
Thank you, Suz! Welcome in. The initiating ritual involves having a glass of good wine and dark chocolate before bed around a campfire of friends and then a cup of coffee when you wake up—and the sharing of your honest thoughts is the only thing that's mandatory.
As a part-time yoga teacher for most of my life and admirer of Buddhist philosophy, I appreciate your honesty and have struggled with many of the same issues you have. However, I have another "sin" to confess. I wear nail polish – on my fingers and toes – and love it!!!
Me too! woo hoo! Honestly, my fingernails grow naturally long and god-awful strong and it's actually a pain in the arse to keep them short for my yoga practice—oh, the things that I suffer for in the name of goodness 😉
Seriously, I hope nobody judges you for that. If they do, I'll sit down to a nice glass of wine and plate o' bacon with you.
I'm a yoga teacher, and you just described me! (I even own a Nordic Track – purchased in 1995 about a week before I gave birth to my first son). I started teaching in 1999, and felt like a bit of a fraud when I tried the Atkins diet. Now, I love the fact that I feel comfortable being real. I've never wanted to be a vegan and I still love my long walks and weighted workouts.
Go, Amy! (And a nordic track sister! How exciting
I dig that you are real! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Kris!
AWESOME. Kevin Winters said it best above "the journey is the goal. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something…and what they are selling isn't the authentic thing.
Keep on being yourself and enjoy the journey.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. The journey sure is a lot more fun without the weight of a mask.
As you continue to do your practice daily, especially meditation, you will find that your vibration rate will become more and more rarefied. You will activate higher, and still higher, centers. And little by little, you will LET GO of the gross, dense, and vile. They will fall away from you gently. And you won't miss them, either. It will NOT be like putting away treasures; it will be like putting the trash out on the curb.
We are householders, not saints. But through this practice, we householders can become saints. Some day.
Nope, I'll never be a saint—and that's fine with me.
You and I should be friends! Yoga is the calming influence in my life but my rock chick partying, egotistical, competitive spirit still lives on.
Just today I was contemplating this very subject. While I was baking my bacon for my fresh broccoli out of the garden salad, I was literally thinking about how much I use the F word…..and what it means. It means nothing. I get angry, and that is what I say under my breath. The bacon…..I just read an article about a woman who lived 100+ and she said her secret was bacon every day. The most important piece of being a yogi or a human for that matter, is loving where I am in this moment. That is enough.
Thanks, Wendy, I love that.
Great post- coming from another angle, I'm a little floored that more yogis or yoginis pretend like they don't drink, curse, listen to loud "angry" music, etc. I definitely do- always have. Most that I've known- do. It just feels differently when serious practitioners engage these activities: more of a playful spirit rather than desperation. I love that. I love how you wrote this. I also LOVE meat, & my body needs it (I've tried nixing it & got DANGEROUSLY thin). Thanks for the EFFING FIST-PUMP!
And PS: false piety aggravates the SHIT out of me.
Andy, thank you, thank you. I agree completely. Every single day of my life I work to be the best Jennifer that I can be—and some days sure are better than others—but, overall, I've found that I'm never at my best if I'm not being real both with myself and with others.
Thanks again for your feedback.
To me, yoga is all about observing where you are now – and being okay with it. We try so hard to live up to the public's view of what a yogi is, that we forget about the core of it – observing ourselves and being okay. I think you've got a better handle on it than a lot of people who try so hard to be so perfect…and then give all of it up because it is too hard. I am a vegan and it is easy for me, but I know that not everyone is there, nor should they be. I am happy that you've been brave enough to start this dialogue in the yoga community!
Leah, thank you for your sharing your thoughts. I just feel that on a basic level trying to live up to a photograph or an inspirational and cheerful ideological concept is often counterproductive and damaging. Often in practice, people try to make their bodies do what a picture or implanted image looks like rather than letting go and giving into sensation—and this article was meant to be this same thought transplanted into how we could live our every day lives. In other words, stop being phony and start being honest—because positive change can not come from hiding in the dark.
Haha, I love this. I just also posted my love of bacon, it's out there now, no turning back. I love that you are free to be you, since that's what yoga is about anyways. *internet five*
*internet five* back. Thanks for your uplifting feedback!
I think you are me. Thank you for the mirror, and for your authentic vulnerability. As I like to say, "It's all good, I don't care what it looks like." <3
why do you "need" meat?
Humans do not NEED meat to survive, your body does not need it! there are so many other non violent options out there. I truly do not believe that you can be a TRUE yogi in the lifestyle sense of the word unless you are vegan. Yogis are supposed to create a life of change from the energy you are consistently moving through your body and lead the way in non-violence. Yet, what you do each day, eat bacon, creates a life of misery for a gently pig who is actually smarter than a 3 year old child. They do not go willingly to slaughter, they are forced there and there lives are taken from them, so you can have your meat since you NEED it.
Essentially, you are a person who can do yoga poses. NOT a yogi.
Hmmm…normally I would now state my logical, rational opinion, but I honestly can tell that your mind is made up and that this is not the beginning of a discussion but rather a condemnation of my lifestyle choices. The reason that I wrote this article wasn't to get everyone to eat meat or cuss (and it's not like I'm gnawing on bacon all day every day), it was to get our collective yoga community to open up and share ourselves willingly and honestly in order to better promote growth and support (which, clearly, is not your shared mission). Good luck on our journey.
It's not your position to claim such a "mission" in the first place. The word "Yogi" is thousands of years old and not subject to your "personal Americanized version" of it. This person is presenting the authentic Vedic understanding of a healthy Yogic lifestyle and you are denouncing it because your mission is to "promote growth"? The only thing you are promoting is distortion of an ancient practice and that hardly passes for growth. If you want to make things "your way" invent your own system that hasn't existed millenia before you in another culture on another part of the globe.
Maybe pick a title that doesn't begin with:"Yes, I'm a serious Yogi…" if you don't want to deal with the criticism you are quite blatantly asking for.
Totally agree with you Tim and Vegan Yogi. Ms. White, you aren't following the 5 paths of yoga.
Regardless of ancient history, or other cultures, who is to say she can't define what it means for herself? There's multiple versions of religion are there not? Why then can't there be multiple versions of yogis as well? Why must we be so dogmatic about it? (on either of these really, as religious can be similar) It's great to wanna be a certain way, but ever stop to think that that path, noble as it may be isn't for everyone? That maybe people want to put their own stamp on life and on what they see themselves as or want to strive for? Just some food for thought, we're not all the same, and I think that celebrated rather than be criticized. Life wouldn't be what it is if we all were.
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And now we come to the final post in my series on Canberra! As you may have gathered, all our previous eating destinations were chosen by our gracious host An. Urban Pantry, on the other hand, was one that I really wanted to visit, having read about it both here and here before our trip. It was super crowded when we arrived at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon, and we had to wait around 20 minutes for a table, which gave us some time to check out the surrounding shops. The whole Manuka area seems to have changed a lot since our last visit in 2009, with many more trendy cafes and bars popping up in the meantime.
|Mango Magic - mango, pineapple & nectar blended w/ ice topped w/ coconut cream - $8.80
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I liked Urban Pantry, but I would have been better off coming with a bigger appetite - poor planning on my part! I'd love to visit for dinner and also try some of their desserts! I must say that it is very expensive though, even without the Sunday surcharge (see the Breakfast/Lunch and Dinner menus here), so it isn't one that I'd visit more than occasionally.
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Oh fun! I've never done one of these before. I'll try to post it tomorrow night. Love your list! Your mom is such a great artist!ReplyDelete
i love every one of these! i even have the same initial mug as you!ReplyDelete
I knew i would love your list to pieces!!! THANK-YOU for letting me tag you!ReplyDelete
your style is whimsical and trendy. Your mom's art work is to be coveted- i seriously wish to own a piece of her work someday, it's amazing.
i wish i was the same about my bed ;) j'adore your inspiration board. everything-- the owl which was indeed a great purchase!-- is beautiful. kinda like you sweet friend.
I love your list! And the bulletin board is beautiful! What a cool way to display all the things that inspire you. Thank you for tagging me in this challenge!ReplyDelete
Isn't it funny how fairy lights can just make a room feel so warm and cozy? Also - your Mom's painting is beautiful and I love LOVE love the print on your makeshift mantle. It's awesome, as are you, my blog twin!ReplyDelete
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I just started my children with an allowance to help them learn about money. I also thought it would be a good time to introduce the idea of giving and charity. They are almost 5 and almost 7. They both seemed to feel good about doing nice things. The younger child's school makes lunches for a family shelter but they do not actually see the people they help. the oldest child has fundraisers and food drives at his school so I thought they would feel more involved if they could give to a cause or a charity of their choice. Boy was I wrong! When I told them I was dividing their allowance into three parts, the first part they could spend, the second they must save and the third part would go to charity -the protests began." But Ryan," I implored of my youngest, "I thought you liked to make the lunches for the hungry." "I do, "he said but I don't want to give up my money. Let's give them food." "Ok," I said ,"but you need to buy the food with your money." Again, he did not like this answer. The oldest I thought would be more flexible. He too , did not want to part with his money. He told me to give up my money. I told him that I do many things to help others in need such as volunteering my time and resources to the auction committee at Ryan's school to raise money for scholarships. this still did not move him.Regardless, I still made them set a part of their allowance aside and over time they have been better at not putting up a fuss. I have found however, they enjoy donating their old clothes and toys, although at one point they thought they might try to sell them. "No way , I told them -we can give away what we don't need." I believe what comes around goes around and there have been many times when we have been on the receiving end. I wish I could say that I have been able to instill a sense of wanting to give , unfortunately, I am only hoping that this will develop over time and through example. I am hoping to raise little Santas rather than Scrooges!
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Sure, you'll be busy cooking and/or running around to various homes tomorrow, but you might want to turn on the TV too. There's a lot more on than just football.
- At 9am, CBS has The Thanksgiving Day Parade. Not exactly sure what this is, but it's from NYC, so maybe it's the Macy's parade but they can't call it that for legal reasons?
- NBC has The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade at 9.
- The History Channel has American Eats at 9, followed by More American Eats.
- TLC has a Take Home Chef marathon starting at 9.
- There's a marathon of The Closer at 9 on TNT.
- FX has two Thanksgiving episodes of Spin City at 9.
- Discovery has a marathon of I Shouldn't Be Alive, also at 9.
- Food Network has Thanksgiving episodes all day long, starting at 9:30.
- Lifetime has a Thanksgiving episode of Frasier at 10.
- Spike has a James Bond marathon starting at 10.
- A Project Runway marathon airs on Bravo at 10.
- Another marathon: Sci-Fi has several eps of Eureka, also at 10.
- Shortly after 10, IFC has Pieces of April, starring Katie Holmes as a woman who cooks her first Thanksgiving dinner.
- At noon, CBS has the Dolphins vs. the Lions, while NBC has The National Dog Show.
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SEARCY, Ark (Harding) - Harding men's soccer matched its highest goal total ever in a road game Tuesday with a 7-1 victory over Central Baptist in non-conference action.
The victory moved Harding to 6-6-3 overall and give the Bisons a lift going into their final game of the season. Harding takes on nationally-ranked Northeastern State on Friday in Tahlequah, Okla.
Harding last had seven goals in a road game on Sept. 30, 2003, when it defeated Williams Baptist 7-1 in Walnut Ridge, Ark.
Harding sophomore Adam Borsheim had two career goals entering Tuesday's game but recorded the Bisons' first hat-trick since Philip McCormick and Carter Truax both scored three goals against Rust in 2008. Borsheim's scored Harding's final three goals, netting them in the 37th, 58th, and 80th minutes.
Harding junior Jacob Stevens scored Harding's first goal in the sixth minute, his fifth of the season. Ian Park then scored his fifth and sixth goals of the season in the 13th and 19th minutes, respectively. Junior Gehrig Haberstock scored his second goal this season in the 25th minute. Borsheim's first goal gave Harding a 5-0 lead at halftime.
Central Baptist's only goal came from Joe Adkins in the 84th minute.
Last season in Searcy, the two teams tied 1-1, but Tuesday's game was very different. Harding scored five goals in a half for the first time since scoring a school-record 11 goals in the second half vs. Rust in 2008.
It marked only the third time since the program began in 2000 that Harding scored five goals in the first half of a game and the first time ever that the Bisons scored five goals in a half on the road.
Harding scored goals on half of its 14 shots in the game. Central Baptist shot nine times, six on goal, and Harding freshman goalkeeper Seth Peterson made five saves.


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This ultrasimple soup requires little more than a couple of cans of black beans, some onion and a bit of cumin. A topping of fried tortillas (or store-bought chips) adds crunch.
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- Three 6-inch corn tortillas, cut into narrow wedges
- Kosher salt
- 1 onion, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Two 15-ounce cans black beans
- 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
- Freshly ground pepper
In a medium saucepan, heat 1/2 inch of vegetable oil over moderately high heat until a deep-fry thermometer registers 350°. Add the tortillas and fry, stirring occasionally, until crisp and lightly golden, about 1 1/2 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the tortillas to paper towels to drain; season with salt.
In a medium soup pot, heat 2 tablespoons of the oil used to fry the tortillas. Add the onion and cook over moderate heat until softened, about 6 minutes. Add the cumin and cook for 1 minute. Add the beans and their liquid and 1 1/2 cups of water. Bring to a simmer and cook until slightly thickened, about 15 minutes. Stir in 1 tablespoon of the cilantro and season with salt and pepper. Ladle the soup into bowls and top with a few tortillas. Sprinkle with the remaining 1 tablespoon of cilantro and serve.
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Police seek Pittsburgh man for McKeesport bar shooting
A Pittsburgh man is wanted in the death of Jayemond Bailey, who was shot inside Street Stars bar in McKeesport on Friday morning.
Mark Leonard, 32, is charged with homicide and weapons violations for his alleged role in the shooting.
Allegheny County police describe Leonard as a black male, approximately 5 feet 11 inches tall and 175 pounds. He has distinctive hazel eyes and last was seen with facial hair and a bald head. He has tattoos on both sides of his neck.
"He is originally from the Hill District and is known to frequent McKeesport and the Manchester section of Pittsburgh," Lt. Andrew Schurman wrote in a Thursday morning press release.
Street Stars co-owner Jim Brown said Leonard was a regular at the establishment, stopping in at least twice a week. He has not visited the bar since Friday's shooting.
Bailey, 34, of McKeesport was shot multiple times on Friday at approximately 1 a.m. inside the bar at 316 Sixth Ave. Bailey was transported to UPMC McKeesport, where he died.
When the investigation began, Schurman said the motive for the shooting was "unclear" and authorities were analyzing surveillance video from inside the bar. The lieutenant said at least 20 patrons were there at the time of the shooting.
McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko and police urged witnesses to "do the right thing" and contact authorities with any information.
"It's pleasing to hear police have gotten enough cooperation in gathering evidence to obtain an arrest warrant," Cherepko said on Thursday.
Anyone with information regarding Leonard's whereabouts is asked to contact McKeesport police at 412-675-5015 or Allegheny County police at 412-473-1300. Anyone who sees Leonard should call 911 immediately.
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A wooden cross marks the area where the body of Becky O'Connell was found 21 years ago, close to the Iowa border near Harrisburg. Donald Moeller was convicted in 1997 in the girl's slaying. / Devin Wagner / Argus Leader
Officers escort Donald Moeller in 1991. "They've spent way too much on him," says Tina Curl, mother of victim Becky O'Connell. "Save yourself some money. Kill him. " Argus Leader file photo
Court and jail costs for Donald Moeller
An Argus Leader review of the costs to prosecute, litigate and incarcerate convicted murderer Donald Moeller show the state has spent at least $1,496,777 so far, based on information provided by Lincoln and Minnehaha counties, the state Department of Corrections and the attorney general's office. The breakdown:
$854,948.18: Prosecution, defense and other court costs for prosecuting Moeller in 1992 and again in 1995.
$27,200: Cost for incarcerating Moeller in the Minnehaha County Jail leading up to his conviction in 1992.
$314,628.82: Cost for keeping Moeller in prison since September 1992.
$300,000: Amount South Dakota attorney general's office estimates it has spent on appeals in the case.
$1,496,777: Total cost to date of Moeller's appeals and incarceration.
May 8, 1990: Nine-year-old Becky O'Connell goes missing that evening after leaving her home to buy candy at a nearby convenience store in north Sioux Falls.
May 9, 1990: Two men find O'Connell's body in a wooded area along the banks of the Big Sioux River east of Lake Alvin in Lincoln County. An autopsy indicates she has been raped and has sustained knife wounds to her neck, shoulder, chest, back, hip, and hands. A forensic pathologist finds that she died as a result of a cut to her jugular vein.
July 31, 1991: After being apprehended in Tacoma, Wash., Moeller is indicted by a Lincoln County grand jury on one count of first-degree rape, one count of felony murder, and one count of first-degree murder.
Sept. 1, 1992: A Vermillion jury finds Moeller guilty of rape and murder. It imposes a death sentence.
May 22, 1996: The South Dakota Supreme Court reverses Moeller's conviction, saying his prior bad acts were improperly admitted at his trial and potentially prejudicial to his conviction.
April 1997: A second trial begins in Rapid City, where Moeller faces charges of rape and murder. He is convicted and sentenced to death again.
Aug. 12, 2011: After numerous appeals in state and federal courts, a three-judge panel from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul denies Moeller's habeas corpus action, in which his lawyers argued that constitutional violations led to his illegal incarceration.
Pending: Moeller has has a complaint pending in U.S. District Court, questioning the constitutionality of South Dakota's lethal injection process and the quality of the sodium thiopental the state bought from India earlier this year for his execution.
Twenty-one years after the rape and murder of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell, justice remains unserved for her killer, Donald Moeller, and the tab to execute him unsettled.
An Argus Leader review of bills and charges for the prosecution, litigation and incarceration of the 59-year-old death row inmate shows South Dakota has paid at least $1,496,777 to try to put Moeller to death.
It's an imprecise figure, but perhaps the first comprehensive review of the costs of a capital punishment case in the state. It includes bills submitted to Lincoln County by prosecutors and defense lawyers for two trials, two convictions and two death sentences that Moeller has received for killing the girl May 8, 1990.
It also includes Moeller's incarceration at the Minnehaha County Jail leading up to his first trial, and charges for keeping him on death row post conviction. In that figure also are estimates by the attorney general's office for time spent litigating Moeller's numerous appeals through the years.
The issue of paying to put someone to death is a polarizing one that has and still is being debated in cash-strapped statehouses across the country. In 2009, 11 state legislatures considered bills to end capital punishment. Several of them - Illinois and New Mexico most recently - cited financial considerations in part for repealing their death penalty statutes. At least one group - South Dakotans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty - is bent on doing the same thing here.
Moeller did not respond to a written request for an interview. But Travis Schulze of Rapid City, coordinator of South Dakotans for Alternatives, said: "When you think of the money spent on death penalty cases in South Dakota, and we've executed what, one person, in 60 years, doesn't it make more sense to use those dollars to pay for more law enforcement, or to provide services to families of murder victims?"
Dottie Poage of Rapid City, whose son, Chester, was murdered in March 2000 after being beaten and tortured by three men in Higgins Gulch west of Spearfish, answered that this way: "Can you put a price on your child's life?"
"Can you put a price on your own life?" Poage said, with emphasis. "To me, it's worth every damn cent."
Putting aside other nuances of the capital punishment debate - the moral and religious issues, or its value as a deterrent to crime - discussions in South Dakota over the costs of the death penalty closely mirror those on the national scene.
Cost in death case isn't much more, Jackley says
Opponents argue that death penalty cases cost much more in the pre-trial and trial phases because they require extra lawyers, more time and costs in processing evidence, and longer periods of time to sit juries, reach verdicts and consider sentencing - not to mention greater security expenses in guarding inmates on death row.
But those arguments don't fly in South Dakota, prosecution and corrections officials here say.
"You add a couple of weeks time frame on jury selection in a death penalty case. At the tail end, because sentencing is in front of a jury, not a judge, then you add a week instead of a day," Attorney General Marty Jackley said. "So if you look at the scheme of things, that's a couple of thousand dollars. But once you get past the trial stage, a death penalty case and non-death penalty case have the exact same procedure, the same appeals rights in state and federal courts. You don't have any difference in costs between the two."
There seems little dispute that some costs in South Dakota would be less than in other states with high-volume death penalty cases. For example, California spends $90,000 more a year on each of its 675 death row inmates than on those in the general population of its maximum-security prisons - mainly because of higher security needs in its separate death row unit - according to a 2008 study by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice.
Three on death row cost $22,126 a year
In South Dakota, the daily cost for its three death row inmates - Moeller, Charles Rhines and Briley Piper - is $60.62, or $22,126.30 a year, Department of Corrections spokesman Michael Winder said. The state figures per diem incarceration costs by facility, not individual housing units, he said. The three death row inmates are housed with 55 other inmates deemed to need segregation.
"I don't know if (other) states have separate units or facilities for their capital punishment inmates," Winder said. "If so, I would assume that would increase their costs."
Death case costs 70% higher, 2003 study shows
Schulze noted that the $1.5 million spent at a minimum on the Moeller case is similar to what Kansas has invested in its death penalty cases. A 2003 study done by that state found that the median cost of a death penalty case through execution was $1.26 million, or 70 percent more than the median cost of $740,000 spent on comparable, non-death penalty capital cases.
No similar study exists in South Dakota. But national studies have shown that two out of three capital punishment cases are sent back by appellate courts because of trial error.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has noted many times that once the death penalty is carried out, it's impossible to take the death sentence back," Schulze said. "So certainly, with the scrutiny that needs to be done, the number of death penalty cases being reversed on appeal has to be higher.
"And remember, death penalty cases are expensive. Trying somebody twice just adds to the cost."
Moeller's original conviction in 1992 was overturned by the South Dakota Supreme Court, which ruled that improper evidence was used at that trial. He was convicted again in 1997 and again sentenced to death.
Death cases overturned at 68% rate from 1973-95
A 2000 study conducted by lawyers and criminologists at Columbia University found that 68 percent of 5,760 death penalty convictions from 1973 to 1995 were overturned on appeal because of errors. More than 90 percent of the states with the death penalty on the books had overall reversible error rates of 52 percent or higher, the study said, and three-fifths had error rates of 70 percent and more.
Jackley said convictions resulting in sentences of life without parole get sent back as well for errors, so it's not an issue unique to the death penalty. Still, "practically speaking, appellate courts closely examine the issues in a death case given the seriousness of the punishment," Jackley said. "And they should so long as it is a responsible and timely review."
Looking for ways to shorten appeals process
While the appeals process and rights for someone convicted in a death penalty case are the same at the state and federal levels as for those convicted of burglary, kidnapping or any other crime, many say there should be ways to shorten the process, especially at the federal level.
Becky O'Connell's mother, Tina Curl, agrees. Her daughter was 9 when she was lured into Moeller's pickup truck at an intersection near Omar's Market in north Sioux Falls, taken into Lincoln County and raped before her throat was slit and her body discarded along the wooded banks of the Big Sioux River east of Lake Alvin.
She would have turned 31 two weeks ago, her Curl, said from her home in Lake Luzerne, N.Y.
"Does it cost too much? I don't care. Does it take too long? Yes," Curl said. "They should have let me kill him. I would have done it the next day, and it wouldn't have cost them a damn dime."
In his dissent to a 2009 opinion in which the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of an inmate named Scott Pinholster, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski offered a hint of the exasperation that exists with an appellate system that can string cases out for years.
The trial in that case had taken place more than a quarter century earlier, Kozinski noted. Pinholster's original lawyers were dead. The California Supreme Court justice who wrote the unanimous opinion in Pinholster's direct appeal was dead.
"Meanwhile, prison has been good to Pinholster," Kozinski wrote. "He sits in his cell reading Machiavelli, Voltaire and all the philosophers, drawing pictures to sell over the Internet. He enjoys the gravitas, authority and mentoring opportunities that come with being an elder in his gang, and has surgery performed on his knees at taxpayer expense.
"His conscience doesn't trouble him about the fact that he took the lives of two fellow human beings; he has never expressed the least remorse for his killings. The people of California are entitled to put an end to Pinholster's paid vacation."
'Federal courts 'dragging their feet' on fast-tracking
If federal legislation passed in 1996 and amended in 2006 was implemented as it was written, the slow pace of death penalty appeals could be hastened, said Kent Scheidegger, legal director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento, Calif.
That legislation "provides for a fast-track procedure with time deadlines on the federal courts provided that the state provides adequate counsel in its state reviews," Scheidegger said. "That is supposed to speed up things on the federal court level in all states that do provide counsel.
"The problem is, the federal courts are dragging their feet. In the 2006 legislation, Congress moved oversight to the U.S. attorney, and since then, the attorney general has dragged his feet in certifying whether a state qualifies for a fast track."
Jackley said good has come from that legislation. Inmate appeals that have been exhausted in front of a state Supreme Court need to reach the federal courts within a year, he said. Among other things, limitations were placed on the number of successive filings in federal court, he added.
But Jackley, who is co-chairman of the Criminal Law Committee of the National Attorneys General Association, also said that he intends to ask his association to look at where the fast-track legislation stands.
"I intend to raise this issue," he said. "As far as the Department of Justice finalizing these rules and states getting certification, those need to be addressed. It at least needs to be examined."
Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., said he would be wary of any kind of fast-tracking. Since 1973, 138 people have been exonerated and freed from death row, he said.
"In many of these cases," he said, "the appeals process was critical in overturning an unfair conviction and allowing a new trial."
Those issues can't and shouldn't overburden prosecutors in the position of pursuing the death penalty, said former Minnehaha County State's Attorney Dave Nelson.
"Our Legislature has made the determination that it is a sentence our juries should be allowed to consider," Nelson said. "If it costs too much money, the Legislature needs to decide that it costs too much money.
"If it costs too much money to send drunk drivers to prison, then the Legislature needs to say drunk driving is no longer punishable by a penitentiary sentence."
Schulze said at the right time, depending on the state's political landscape, the 160 members of his anti-death penalty organization will ask legislators to repeal that sentencing option.
"Eventually, we'll put up a repeal bill," he said. "And if we think we'll be more successful in repealing the death penalty through a referendum, we'll pick that avenue."
Until then, or until justice is served for the murderer of Becky O'Connell, South Dakota will keep adding to the $340,000 already spent to keep the death row inmate behind bars for 21 years.
Moeller still has a complaint pending in U.S. District Court, questioning the constitutionality of South Dakota's lethal injection process and the quality of the sodium thiopental the state purchased from India earlier this year for his execution.
Jackley estimates that his office will spend $25,000 to $50,000 more to litigate that complaint and any further appeals. He also said Moeller's time in the appellate system is nearing an end, and that his execution probably will proceed within two years.
For Tina Curl, it can't happen soon enough.
"I think they've spent way too much on him," she said. "Save yourself some money. Kill him."
Reach reporter Steve Young at 331-2306.


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Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is having a difficult time staying away from the operating room.
Gronkowski had a third surgery on his broken left arm last week, according to ESPN. The surgery was required to cure an infection in the arm, and he is still expected to be ready for camp.
Gronkowski has come under fire again this offseason for partying. He was videotaped body-slamming a friend on a Las Vegas nightclub stage during the night of the Super Bowl, and he's been seen in other celebratory photos on the Internet, sometimes shirtless.
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