COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

I just started reading a book called Evolutions Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden. I also just agreed to teach a gender studies class. Though I am excited about this new enterprise, I have a lot to learn. This book has already helped me see some things that I did not know.  Darwin's theory of sexual selection believes that males and females, both, follow a template: the passionate male and the coy female. Roughgarden acknowledges that this may be true, but how now, we must move forward from this idea. We are not just one way. We are diverse. Our understanding should be as well. As we become more diverse, our opportunities, our thoughts, our lives, and our selections do too. The grooves that used to hold us in one category are being sanded down, phased out. What is left is fluid and colorful. More choice is created. This can be confusing. Sometimes it feels easier to have just two outfits or a uniform in the closet. Yet, when we have it, we want so badly to have our individuality,...

What are you doing this summer? Do you have plans for fun, for growth, and/or travel? I do. Recently while in South Carolina, where most of my family now resides, I realized how much fun it can be to feel one’s growth, and how travel, even short day trips, can help one to rekindle possibility, creativity and fun, and open the heart and mind to what is available. I have not always liked the feeling of growth. It’s not always been fun. When pregnant with my son, the feeling of growing bigger as he got bigger challenged me. At 25, I did not want to feel big, be unable to touch my toes, or tie my shoes. At the end of my pregnancy after growing 85 pounds!, getting out of bed was a problem, and I was not having fun, though I was growing . When traveling at various times in my life, things were not always fun then either. I may not have been in a warm climate or with those that I love, so things felt harder to appreciate. Though I could not help but...