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the_siobhan) wrote2023-03-01 09:39 pm
the_siobhan) wrote2023-03-01 09:39 pm
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Question of the Day: World Yoga Day
22 – World Yoga Day: Do you do yoga? How do you benefit from it?
I do yoga. It's good for my vestibular issues and for my very inflexible body, and I feel infinitely physically better if I do even a little bit of yoga. But as I have said in this space before, I fucking hate yoga. So I do a ten minute video as soon as I wake up and a fifteen minute one right before bed and that way I can get myself through it. Any longer and I can't even force myself to start.
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There are a couple of charities I support. Dcotors Without Borders is my main one, but there are a few others. I used to just buy Christmas presents through Plan International's promotions to like, buy some people a bunch of cows or dig a well or something in lieu of gifts. Somehow this got segued into regular donations to their Because I Am A Girl program.
Late last year they changed the program so instead of just donating a sum that got put into a pool of money, now they have moved everybody into sponsoring individuals. So I got this info package about a 10 year-old girl who I am apparently sponsoring along with some pictures and a letter.
And I'm feeling all kinds of weirded out about it. I liked being anonymous. And I kind of get why they want this, "engagement" is the word of the unroaring 20s and donors are much more likely to send extra money to a smiling child who says "thank you" when it means she can get books for school or something. But I am completely skeeved by the idea that this kid or her family might think that they are called upon to like, perform gratitude for me or something.
Ugh. I am probably thinking too much about this.
And I should probably write her back. (What the hell do you say to a 10 year old?)
I do yoga. It's good for my vestibular issues and for my very inflexible body, and I feel infinitely physically better if I do even a little bit of yoga. But as I have said in this space before, I fucking hate yoga. So I do a ten minute video as soon as I wake up and a fifteen minute one right before bed and that way I can get myself through it. Any longer and I can't even force myself to start.
***
There are a couple of charities I support. Dcotors Without Borders is my main one, but there are a few others. I used to just buy Christmas presents through Plan International's promotions to like, buy some people a bunch of cows or dig a well or something in lieu of gifts. Somehow this got segued into regular donations to their Because I Am A Girl program.
Late last year they changed the program so instead of just donating a sum that got put into a pool of money, now they have moved everybody into sponsoring individuals. So I got this info package about a 10 year-old girl who I am apparently sponsoring along with some pictures and a letter.
And I'm feeling all kinds of weirded out about it. I liked being anonymous. And I kind of get why they want this, "engagement" is the word of the unroaring 20s and donors are much more likely to send extra money to a smiling child who says "thank you" when it means she can get books for school or something. But I am completely skeeved by the idea that this kid or her family might think that they are called upon to like, perform gratitude for me or something.
Ugh. I am probably thinking too much about this.
And I should probably write her back. (What the hell do you say to a 10 year old?)