Devotions

[greenstorm]

My body's ability to do what I've seen called "the asian squat" comfortably when there are no chairs and the floor isn't sittable, I hear it's hard on some folks but I find it comfy and useful.

The feeling of being loved.

Vancouver airport security being neutral for once, rather than unkind.

Small airports. Prince George is so nice to fly out of.

The myriad of time and space compression machines at our disposal.

How much nicer my phone seems when I take apart my phone case and clean it.

My home.

Corn and cucumbers and tomatoes and greens that boomed along even in my absence.

A million ducks of all ages everywhere all at once.

The way the north isn't sticky when it's hot.

Mom giving me a ride home from the airport.

Hope for the future as embodied in planting trees. Someone will find them. Someone will marvel at them.

The quiet sounds of my birds through an open window.

Comments

[yarrowkat]

i squat like that often, too. it feels in my body like a useful skill to have and i use it especially to light the woodstove in the winter when the floor is a mess and i don't want to kneel, and in the garden in the summer when i want my hands in the dirt but not my knees or butt.

[greenstorm]

It's surprising to me that a lot of folks... can't.

[squirrelitude]

I can do it flat-footed if I spread my feet fairly far apart, but if they're closer together I fall over backwards -- for that, I need to do a raised-heel squat.

I heard somewhere that there's bone development throughout childhood such that if you don't squat as a child, it's hard to do as an adult. I don't know if it's true. But I bet there's also trainable flexibility.

[greenstorm]

The typical one doesn't have the feet directly beside each other, there's room for the hips to sit between the legs, sort of.

I've heard that a similar lack of lower jaw bone development, reduced because we don't chew as much anymore as kids, is why so many folks have underbites.