- Follow The Awkward Pose on WordPress.com
-
Join 806 other subscribers
Categories
Search
-
Recent Posts
Website Links
Author Archives: paulefallon
Yoga Body in the Mirror
There is something unseemly about a middle aged man in a Speedo standing in front of a mirror. The lines etched under the eyes, the hair that migrated off the head sprouting out the ears and shoulders, the age spots. … Continue reading
Posted in Yoga
Leave a comment
Trilogy of Improved Health
In the first three months of 2011 I know two people who died, three family members who were admitted to the ICU, and I lost count of the reported aches and flu’s flying around my orb. Blame it on the … Continue reading
Posted in United States
Leave a comment
Cambridge Public Library – Be Careful What You Wish For
The main branch of the Cambridge Public Library has been open over a year. The building has been heralded as a success both as a work of architecture (Boston Globe 11/10/2009) and for stimulating library use (over 4,000 items were … Continue reading
Posted in United States
1 Comment
Clergy Sex Abuse – Redux
There is a remarkable two page photograph in the NY Times Magazine (2/13/2011); the stone interior of a dim church, seven worshippers bundled in their winter coats dispersed among the pews, a sharp shaft of light descending on a balding, … Continue reading
Posted in United States
Leave a comment
When Vocations Call, Who Answers
This piece was presented as an editorial commentary on WBUR in March, 2002. I recalled it when I read a recent NY Times article about he unfolding sex-abuse scandal in Ireland, which I discuss in a companion piece. There is a crisis … Continue reading
Posted in United States
Leave a comment
Lessons Learned from a Welfare Queen
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is getting a lot of traction calling out public sector employees as 21st century welfare queens. Thirty-five years ago Ronald Reagan popularized the phrase during the 1976 presidential campaign, spinning elaborate tales of women, mostly … Continue reading
Posted in United States
2 Comments
Yoga Among the Chrisitians
In Haiti I practice yoga first thing in the morning. I claim a spot on a concrete slab at the far end of the mission house grounds. I face the sea. The sun rises; the warmth of the day climbs; … Continue reading
Somewhere
In the opening shot of Sofia Coppola’s most recent movie, Somewhere, the camera sits in a single position revealing about a third of a race track in the California desert. A car enters the frame, circles around, disappears. The sound … Continue reading
A Tale of Haiti
When I think if Haiti, the first image that comes to mind is my son Andy and me sitting in our folding chairs wedged against the chain link wrapped boulders that form a sea wall along the beach at Grand … Continue reading
Posted in Haiti
Leave a comment
Yoga in the Storm
I woke at 5:15 am, as usual, last Thursday and peered through the blinds to review last night’s snow. Eight inches or more and still falling. I called the Bikram studio and, alas, no weather cancellations. I shrugged into my … Continue reading
The Awkward Pose 