What do Kurt Vonnegut and Yoga have to do with Jordan?

I'm not sure. My brain has made a connection but I doubt this post will be able to adequately explain it to you.

Kurt Vonnegut is one of my all time favorite authors and my favorite quote is from his novel, "Mother Night." (READ IT, it will broaden your horizons!)

He writes "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."

I think he understands the complexities of the human soul and he explains life with humor that I can't resist.

Here is an excerpt from a radio interview:

[When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.

Today we are heading along the kings highway and stopping at Mount Nebo for our first glimpse of the Dead Sea, then we are heading to Madaba in the afternoon. Jet lag is still pretty crazy. Its 4:48 a.m. here and I'm going to repack my bag and be ready to head out at 7:45 a.m. 

Grateful for Today!

“Yoga, in Sanskrit, can be translated as Union. It originally comes from the root word Yuj, which means to yoke, to attach yourself to a task at hand with ox-like discipline and the task at hand in Yoga is to find Union. Between mind and body, between the individual and her god, between our thoughts and the source of our thoughts, between teacher and student, and even between ourselves and our hard-to-bend neighbors.

The ancients developed these physical stretches not for personal fitness, but to loosen up their muscles and minds in order to prepare them for meditation. It is difficult to sit in still for hours, after all, if your hip is aching keeping you from contemplating your intrinsic divinity because you’re too busy contemplating, “Wow, my hip really aches.”

But Yoga can also mean trying to find god through meditation, through scholarly study, through the practice of silence, through devotional service or through mantra, the repetition of sacred words in Sanskrit.”   --"Eat, Pray, Love"