June 11, 2004
Taking my mother down to my brother's today for a mini-family reunion with some of the few who are left living south of him.
Meanwhile, here's something fun to do: the Kali Breath.
1. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Inhale, and as you exhale in a loud “haaaaaah,” squat down as low as you can while raising both hands, fists as tightly clenched as you can make them.
2. Make a Kali-face while you exhale, brows scowling, tongue protruding as far toward your chin as you can get it. Part of the joy of this exercise is allowing ourselves to be hideous.
3. Stand straight again as your inhale, then repeat the scowling, tongue-out squat-and-exhale at least twice. You will be amazed at how much more alive you will feel after this.
Finally, from the same people who brought you the Kali Breath:
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
--Gary Snyder
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