Just B Yoga Blog

People need reliable information. They need to be empowered to be active participants in our society. Effective dissemination of accurate, in-depth and timely information is vital. Let’s all be a part of Rethinking the News- its forms, its delivery and its importance.

Now more than ever, standards of excellence for news gathering must be upheld. That means not just “good enough.” You can’t send your reporting out on the social media-digital express train if it’s crap – full of holes, misquotes, inaccurate, imbalanced … crap.

It would be nice if I could put in requests for where a new gray hair or wrinkle is being placed. Or if I could set up a reminder note like in my Outlook calendar when a pain from 25 years ago was going to come to visit – say 3 days in advance? Hell, I’d take a 1 hour notice.

I cried as I posted news about Haiti on our news web site. Please follow my friend John Torres, a reporter who is in Haiti. He’s posting on Twitter.

Lorraine Rachel Lonesome was born March 15, 1921 to Benjamin and Helen Lonesome. She was the last of seven children. Spoiled rotten. Her father was born a slave.

Hilltop Yoga, Old Town, Beginners Tai Chi (starting Jan. 16) (preregistration by Jan. 10, $110 – contact me).

Step into my world and take a glimpse. I often wonder how I walk the line between the pure emptiness and peace of my yoga practice and the hyper-broadband-instant-now news career I have.

The Double Dutch poets Kirsten van den Hul a.k.a. The Change Agent and Najiba Abdellaoui are yogis, truly.