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Meteor of Your Laughter

“…let the meteor of your laughter fly: electrify the natural names of things!”
 ~Pablo Neruda*

There came a day recently when I realized that there wasn’t enough beauty in my life.  Not because beauty did not exist–within me, around me, near me and within my reach.  I was not opening my eyes to it, feeling it, seeking it out and making it a priority.  When I came to this awareness of the separation I had created between myself and beauty, I decided to return to some of my favorites from the past: Shakespeare, novels, poetry, music, dancing and sitting in the library.  It is within these things that I find the connective tissue in between my existence and beauty in the form of hints, reminders, clues, rhythm and creative inquiry.

Although this is entirely taken out of context, I find this mantra to be brutal, sharp and instructive: Let the meteor of your laughter fly.  Electrify the natural names of things.

Today, I tune into my capacity for laughter.  A laughter with velocity, speed and the kind that carries the debris of my experience out of my body and transforms it into heat and light. Today I speak with electricity and do not take for granted the names of things or my capacity to speak of them.

I hope with all my heart that this mantra or even just this quick reminder that beauty is yours to behold whenever you choose help you connect with the parts of yourself that were made from the same elements of the stars.

Posted by Sharon Fennimore, a rogue anthropologist, mind-body coach, yogini and doula based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  In town?  Come take a yoga and meditation class with me. 

*(pg. 519, Translation by Stephen Tapscott, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda 2003)

Spring Preparation #3: Laugh Outloud

I understand that ironic humor is perhaps an acquired taste, but if you have the taste for it, then I highly recommend the book Half Empty by David Rakoff.  In this intelligent collection of essays, Rakoff explores the darker side of optimism which is sometimes better known as pessimism.  As dark as the essays may get, this is the first book that I have read in a long time that made me laugh outloud on a public bus.  Usually I can control myself or manage a little chuckle that could also be interpreted as a facial tic or perhaps having  something stuck in my teeth.  But, this book made me laugh in an unmistakable way and loud at that.

I imagine that it says a lot more about me as a person than it does about the book itself that a collection of essays on pessimism is what brought me into public peals of laughter, but I still recommend the book.  It’s delicious spring reading at its very best.  Dark enough that it doesn’t give you a cavity, but intelligent and funny enough that it gets you through a challenging week with a smile on your face.  Priceless.

Insults Can Be Funny

It’s a snow day here in Pittsburgh—-a REAL snow day!  A day that reminds us not to take our little scheduled selves all that seriously, to stay in our pajamas and build snow creatures in our backyards.  In honor of the snow day, I thought I’d provide a list of insults and jokes from one of my favorite joke books, the 4th edition of A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book.

INSULTS

I’d say he’s about one Froot Loop shy of a full box.

The wheel’s spinning, but the hamster’s asleep.

I’d explain it to you but your brain would explode.

I like your approach…let’s see your departure.

Where other people have a brain, he’s got resonance.

Doesn’t have his belt through all the loops.

He’s so dense, light bends around him.

Hard to believe that he beat out a million other sperm.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Looks like he played goalie for the darts team.

YO’ MAMA JOKES

In honor of the Matrikas, who I am sure know how to take a joke, I also offer some Yo’ Mama Jokes.  You know, with all due respect and all that.

Yo’mama is so fat, she doesn’t have a tailor, she has a contractor.

Yo’mama is so fat, she measures 36-24-36, and the other arm is just as big.

Yo’mama is so fat, when her beeper goes off, people think she’s backing up. 

Yo’mama is so dumb, she called Dan Quayle for a spell check.

Yo’mama is so dumb, she thought Boyz II Men was a daycare center.

Yo’mama is so ugly, when she walks into a bank, they turn off the cameras.

Yo’mama is so ugly, your father takes her to work with him so he doesn’t have to kiss her goodbye.

Yo’mama is so old, she still owes Moses a quarter!

Yo’mama’s armpits stink so bad, she made Right Guard turn left.

MUSICIAN JOKES

How do you get the drummer out of your house?
Pay him for the pizza.

A banjo is like an artillery shell–by the time you hear it, it’s too late.

Do you know the definition for perfect pitch?
    When you throw the banjo into the dumpster and it lands right on the accordion.

A bunch of bass players walk into a bar.  The orchestra is playing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and there’s a long section near the end where the basses don’t play, so the bass players decide to go out and have a few beers.  They tie a string to the conductor’s score, so that when he turns the page, it will tug on the string, and the bass players will know to come back for the end of the symphony.
   So the performance goes on, and eventually, the conductor looks up and realizes he’s in big trouble: It’s the bottom of the Ninth, the score is tied, and the basses are loaded!

MAN JOKES
After all those Yo’Mama Jokes….these seem in order.

What’s the difference between government bonds and men?
     Bonds mature.

Why is it so hard for women to find men who are sensitive, caring, and good looking?
     Because those men already have boyfriends.

What do you call a man with half a brain?
     Gifted.

My friend is engaged in a major custody battle.  His wife doesn’t want him and his mother won’t take him back.

THIRD GRADE JOKES

What kind of bees give milk?
     Boobies.

What is large, gray, and doesn’t matter?
     An irrelephant.

Why do they put bells on cows?
    Because their horns don’t work.

HAPPY SNOW DAY PITTSBURGH!!!!!  

 

Reference

A Prairie Home Comapanion Pretty Good Joke Book.  New 4th Edition.  Highbridge Company: Minneapolis. 2005

 

Posted by Sharon Rudyk
Owner of Yoga Matrika, a beautiful yoga studio located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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