Getting Technical

My Husband, The General, (a term of endearment, not a military rank) is so awed when he is able to check his email on any computer or his phone. It took him a few years to realize his email did not only reside on his officer computer. I'm not as tech raw as that, but there is much I've yet to figure out.

 One reason I did not fulfill my New Year's resolution of January 1, 2014 until January 29, 2015 was because I didn't have blogger down. I wanted this joint to be all tricked out with awesome bloggy bling. I also expected to have everything seamlessly integrated across all social media platforms After I spent hours trying to get an image in with the title, I realized it was time to blog first, learn later.

So, I have the minimalist blog. I haven't figured out how to tell anyone to follow/comment. I see   Facebook makes it relatively easy to link personal profiles and pages and jump back and forth between them. It's easy to think there is so much yoga on my personal page, and all those photos, that I don't really need a dedicated Yogarazzi page. However, the yoga is buried deep within all my  political posts and Lola/grandkids pix. It's not as accessible as a dedicated page, and yogis prefer to bypass zealous left wing views. Whatever. At least everyone loves Lola and the West Coast kids.

 I see that while Twitter is down with multiple accounts, it really doesn't want you to have seamless integration. Twitter don't play that way. You have to sign in and out like it was the 1990s. Or, you have to sign up for Twitter hack programs to do Twittery things. SMH.   I have to persevere through all of the hardship because yogis may desire a dedicated twitter account not thick with Butler basketball and retweets of snarky humor.

 I will dig deep into my yoga toolbox and figure all of this out, plus how to create vines; or, some tech fairy will appear and explain it all to me. In 2009, I was part of a fitness program in which we all created blogs. I posted twice. I'm looking for a personal best. Social media and shiny objects be damned! Just one more post. Namaste.

Namaste

NAMASTE! 

I am a yoga enthusiast. I love almost all things related to yoga. I am not a yogi adept, nor a yogalebrity. I  cannot read Sanskrit or begin to properly pronounce it. I don't have mad asana skills. I don't #yoga challenge pix on Instagram. I just like yoga and have lots of opinions about it. You may or may not agree. I decided to write about yoga because I was wearing everyone out talking about it. I had to give it a rest before people stopped going to Starbucks with me.

The adage "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"  has been super glued to me. I am not an expert in any aspect of yoga, I know a little about many things. In my defense, I own it. I couldn't fool any serious practitioner. I know many people who apparently only know one person who practices yoga and that is me. I don't fool them either.

 I practice at home and here and there. I am not wedded to any guru or master or to any  place or type of yoga. I get more out of my practice by jumping around than if I parked my mat at any one spot.

I love yoga classes, events, happenings, and community. I started snapping pix on my iPhone to capture the moment and the joy. I'm not a photographer either so these aren't the best. Every time Apple updates its camera, my product improves.  

My photos are not on Instagram tagged #yoga30daychallege #crazyhardpose. I don't have the body or the chops. Those are a thing, but not my thing. I love taking candid photos of real people doing real poses. Many people don't know how good they look just hanging out. They are happy. They are at ease. They are having fun. Why not picture it?

My work is the opposite of  the work of Robert Sturman and Jasper Johal. They aren't styled, airbrushed, photo shopped, or particularly well framed. I just have fun snapping and posting.FYI: My Facebook page is replete with yoga pix. I get excited every time my photos are shared or used as a profile picture.

Hopefully, this blog will have pix and possibly videos and vines, if I can get the hang of that. But wait there is more---hopefully, this blog will have regular posts about various things. I imagine being a yoga aggregator ; a community booster , a chronicler, a commentator, and muser. In my wildest dreams, I will say clever, insightful things while being so diplomatic that no one I know will ever get pissed off.