oursin | And in other news (Reply)

Yoga hedjog managed a successful Tree posture (foot resting on opposite knee) without wild wobbling and held for, oh, at least a minute each side I should think. Yay.

Further thought:

Is the practice finally having RESULT more generally, or is the Thursday class just slightly less challenging than the Wednesday one?

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I am so giving props to the obituarist here: Murdoch Mitchison:

A quiet, very self-confident scientist, but with a wide-ranging curiosity, Mitchison was influenced by the salon that gathered around his mother, the novelist Naomi Mitchison, at her holiday home at Carradale, Kintyre, which was for many summers a lively centre of cross-disciplinary dialogue. Mitchison's father, to whom he was also close, was the radical Labour politician and lawyer Dick Mitchison (made a life peer in 1964 by Harold Wilson).

Especially gratifying mention of the importance of his mother given that this article on one of his brothers signally failed to mention that subject, still active in his 90s, had a progenitrix who was also still active in her 90s, or indeed to mention her at all, while drooling all over a patriarchal lineage (except that that came from the Haldane matriline).