Yoga -- not an eclectic spiritual practice

I've found a yoga class where I am humbled every time. I am not only the worst student in the class, I am the chubbiest. There is very little New Age stuff about intuition and holism. The teacher urges us to be grateful that we have full use of our limbs and organs. He makes jokes about having had two milkshakes and a whole pan of lasagna before coming to class. I'm hooked. I fall down, and there is stuff I just can't do.

Here is something else that eludes me: This morning's Washington Post is alone in reporting that 1300 have been killed in sectarian fighting this week in Iraq. And then commentators wonder if civil war will break out? What more do they need as proof? An official declaration? I don't understand the news any more, and I simply do not understand its analysis either. And here is another difficulty I can't wrap my mind around: why no reporting of 1300 deaths on the front page of the New York Times ?