Tag: Yoga

Day 534 of 1000

Several times, when people find that I am from back east or from Oregon, they look at me and say something like, “I’m not like most other Arizonans, I’m much more liberal.”  Two observations.  First, the back east that I am from in North Carolina is not particularly liberal.  In fact, it is pretty conservative.  Of course, Oregon is very liberal up and down the Willamette Valley, but the people in the rest of the the state are pretty conservative.  Second, I kind of know how they feel.  When I lived in the Portland and Corvallis areas, I always felt the need to let people know that, just because I was there, I found the Oregon zeitgiest quite objectionable.

I have been doing a pretty good job of keeping my powder dry with respect to tinder box issues.  One of the VP’s here is a big yoga guy.  I am, to say the least, not a big fan of yoga.  There are a couple of guys with pretty extreme environmental stances,  Prescott is a fairly conservative town, but this little company seems to have kind of a new agey/liberal bent to it.  It is giving me lots of practice at not speaking up when stuff is not that important.  I am not perfect at it.  I think most everyone understands about where I sit on the religious/political spectrum, but I also think I have done a little better than sometimes in the past when people looked at me a little like a rabid dog.