Results tagged “For fun and pleasure” from The Health Culture

I find these drawings by Jason Whitman, with their accompanying statements, strangely moving. The words are so tender. The animals express their complaints and their wonder about living in a post-modern world.

I've gotten to a point where I don't think we should talk anymore. I've gotten to point where there is no point. I think everything is fine until you throw the past before me like some small animal braving a highway. Do I swerve? Do I close my eyes and hope for the better? Oh, man if I do hit it, please please let me go ahead and help cross to whatever is on the other side.

What were we even talking about? When all is said and done I'm left shaking and unable to make sense of what you just said. I just know someone has been hurt. I'm not so certain as to why.

As a follow-up to yesterday's post on joyful dancing, here's the video Where the Hell is Matt? Thanks to a Rosen Method friend, Joanna, for sending it.

The video includes dancing in 42 countries. I especially like the crabs on the beach on Christmas Island, Australia and the dog in Kuwait City. And that short kid on the left in Sydney who dances by kicking his legs out to the side? I love to do that. It just happens! Everybody loves to dance. It doesn't matter how you do it.

When I try to explain Rosen Method Movement (RMM) to people, I like to quote Marion Rosen on the way you feel after a movement class: "Our goal is to make people feel happy and motivated to dance, rather than drag themselves around. We would like them to feel physically well when their bodies move, and emotionally cheerful."

The secret to Rosen movement classes is the music. Everyone responds to rhythm with their muscles, bones, and soul. With the right music, you just can't help moving. When you move with a group, the joy is contagious.

I'm a Rosen movement teacher, so it's no wonder I was moved to tears watching this Minnesota bridal party express their joy as they move down the aisle, feeling the music with their bodies and souls.

Source: fotosbydesign

Researchers set up an experiment in which 240 wallets were left on the streets of Edinburgh. Some of the wallets had photos, either a baby, a cute puppy, a family snapshot, or an elderly couple. One group of wallets contained a card indicating a recent charity donation. The last group was a control: No photos, no cards. None of the wallets contained money. All of the wallets contained a return address.

42% of the wallets were returned. Did the photos make a difference? Here are the results for the returned wallets:

• Photo of infant - 88% return rate
• Photo of puppy - 53% returned
• Family snapshot - 48%
• Elderly couple - 28%
• Charity card - 20%
• Control group - 15%

Source: Process Recess

Anatomical skateboard art by James Jean. Jean's statement, which explains skating as the inspiration for his image, is pure poetry.

Skating has always seemed to me a courageous activity, and what is courage but an absence of shame. Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden, pitiful in their nakedness, shameful in their new knowledge. However, the rise of science made man and nature transparent, naked again under a microscope and scalpel. We adorn ourselves with knowledge, hiding our private selves under a crimson web, until a bad fall shreds it to the bone.

Thanks yet again to Street Anatomy for the link.