Humbled Warrior

[clevermanka]

A request from nottygypsy: Please send good energy to a friend of hers who is having a very bad time right now. Details here. EDIT: I didn't realize Notty's post was locked. I have her permission to cut and paste the information about her friend :

I would like all my friends who are so inclined to send good thoughts, prayers, white lights, mantras whatever you do to a friend of mine.
The short story is he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Trying to play hero for a woman with an abusive boyfriend. There was an altercation, my friend suffered a broken arm, nose, lost a tooth and a bit of ear. His "victim" had 3 stitches, my friend has been in jail almost a year and not even had a trial yet.
This "victim" of his has been in jail twice since the incident, once for check fraud, this time for domestic battery. All I am hoping for is justice, that the prosecutor sees it's his witness that is the violent criminal and the charges against my friend are dropped.
Please help me out, I will re post this as a reminder on Friday's until his trial which is set for July Friday the 13th. All I am hoping is that what goes around comes around, and our justice system does not fail. Your thoughts, prayers, spells and meditations are so needed and appreciated! We are all hoping the judge will throw it out or the prosecuter will see that it is not worth perusing. I appreciate your good wishes and energy.

My life:
Restarted IF today. This week I'll be doing Fast-5 to re-acclimate my body to fasting. Next week I'll be joining adammaker in doing full-day fasts. My fast days will be MWF.

Because it's pointless to do the fasting thing without backing it up with exercise, this morning I rose early for some Sun Salutations, a basic yoga routine, and some ab work.

That's a very light workout, but I'm shockingly out of shape. Even worse than I thought. My forward leg started to shake after just twenty seconds of Virabhadrasana II (Proud Warrior II). Definitely time to get back on the stick when it comes to moving my body.

It's scary to think how quickly one gets out of the habit of using one's body--and how quickly the body gets out of the habit of being used.

Comments

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

It's scary to think how quickly one gets out of the habit of using one's body--and how quickly the body gets out of the habit of being used.

A vast understatement. I know I'm going to be struggling at faire because I stopped moving in the intervening year.


D.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oh. Sorry! I didn't realize. Um. She asked friends to post a request for good thoughts for a friend going to trial and said we could post a link to her LJ for details. She must've forgotten it was locked. I'll email her to ask her to unlock it. I don't wanna say the details if there's something in there she wants to stay locked.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

OK! I copied the info into my entry.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

You can't fast on Monday next week! ;)

...and the moving thing... oh yah. Ugh. Maybe we can do some slush power-lifting Monday night.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

See how life conspires against me!!!

I'll do a Fast-5 that day, too. Sorry! Forgot. =D

[the-themiscyran.livejournal.com]

My new workout program is using all the stairs in Watson on a daily basis. I decided that using what I have on hand/foot was the best way to get started. :) But...ouch.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Good idea! I try to run up & down the Wescoe stairs a couple times a day. Maybe if I did it once an hour I might notice some improvement. =D

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info on the friend! Yikes. A whole year for his trial to come around, or is that dated from a prior entry and there's some other legal proceedings going on now?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Nope, he'll have been in for over a year by the time he goes to trial. Fair and speedy trial my ass.

Yikes, indeed.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

WTF?? That's unreal!
Sounds like the kinda crap our vets are dealing with here.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I was trying to figure out why that descripton of the Warrior Pose didn't read right, and had to get up to find out that the picture accompanying the text is reversed from what they're telling you to do!

[maibe.livejournal.com]

Good vibes to friend! The kitties send good-luck fur.

Fasting? Tell me more? This sounds interesting.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

See here! (http://www.fast-5.com/)