One of life's secrets is to go
ahead and do things that you want to see
done and other people aren't getting around to
doing it.

Today,
in the Ananda Yoga Teachers' Training (YTT)
we had a check in,
and this guy I'm starting to like and enjoy
a bunch said banana split was all that was
on his mind.

I said,
go on down to the store,
buy yourself some bananas, ice cream, chocolate and whatnot
and make one yourself.

I mentioned it a couple of times.
No spark.
So, just before dinner I hoofed on down
got some organic chocolate, and soy ice cream
and bananas and coconut
and brought them back.

Got to dinner a little late
and lo and behold
some bit of soy ice cake and strawberries
for desert,
so I took one for the project
went to the table just in time to
catch Robert about to eat his own
desert.

I grab it away,
tell him he had to finish his
salad.

He's like HuuuuuH?
And then i put his desert on a big
plate,
add banana
and the rest.,

He then takes it all around giving people
some,
and luckily I'd gotten a couple of bananas,
so a lot of people had the jollies
and I just watched
and got jolly on that.

This lead later to
the discovery of banasana,
which is like the lion's pose
with the licking tongue,
to mirror Robert's licking each bit off his
plate when he finally let himself have some.

We need some pictures of Robert on here.
With a little technology,
it should be possible.
anyway he licked his plate clean
and banasana,
includes circular licking at the front end
and circular rotation of the pelvis at the
other end.

Then some skits began to be born.
Since in Ananda yoga the poses
have affirmations to go with them,
banasana
has this one:
Life is delicious.
I will lick it to the last drop.

This probably sounds childish.
it is in
a way,
but after all the work of the week,
and the delight of letting the kid
in us come out,
the banana split wish
turned into a rather fine evening.


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