Grimmly of Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga endorses....

What do you care who I endorse....nor should you.

That said....

It's THAT close????

My dear American cousins what are you thinking, how can it be THAT close!

Was quite stunned when I saw that this morning.

Now supposedly an article this week suggested that us yoga bloggers should stand up and be counted, because apparently what somebody who jumps up and down on a rubber mat in their pants thinks is somehow important...No I don't know either, I didn't read it. but seeing that 49/49 this morning brought something to mind and I felt I wanted to play, to "wring your heart".

So here's another Englishman poking his nose into matters that don't concern him, make of it what you will.

This from Act 3 Scene 4 Where the boy Hamlet confronts his Mother for switching from one husband to another, from one brother to another, from one king to another....

Hamlet and Ophelia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

HAMLET


"...Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down, 
    And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, 
    If it be made of penetrable stuff, 
    If damned custom have not brass'd it so 
    That it is proof and bulwark against sense. 

QUEEN GERTRUDE 

    What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue 
    In noise so rude against me? 

HAMLET 

    Such an act 
    That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, 
    Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose 
    From the fair forehead of an innocent love 
    And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows 
    As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed 
    As from the body of contraction plucks 
    The very soul, and sweet religion makes 
    A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow: 
    Yea, this solidity and compound mass, 
    With tristful visage, as against the doom, 
    Is thought-sick at the act. 

QUEEN GERTRUDE 

    Ay me, what act, 
    That roars so loud, and thunders in the index? 

HAMLET 

    Look here, upon this picture, and on this,

    The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. 
    See, what a grace was seated on this brow; 
    Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; 
    An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; 
    A station like the herald Mercury 
    New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; 
    A combination and a form indeed, 
    Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
    To give the world assurance of a man: 
    This was your husband. Look you now, what follows: 
    Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, 
    Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? 
    Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, 
    And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? 
    You cannot call it love; for at your age 
    The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, 
    And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment 
    Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have, 
    Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense 
    Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err, 
    Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd 
    But it reserved some quantity of choice, 
    To serve in such a difference. What devil was't 
    That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind? 
    Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, 
    Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, 
    Or but a sickly part of one true sense 
    Could not so mope. 
    O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, 
    If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, 
    To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, 
    And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame 
    When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, 
    Since frost itself as actively doth burn 
    And reason panders will. 

QUEEN GERTRUDE 

    O Hamlet, speak no more: 
    Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; 
    And there I see such black and grained spots 
    As will not leave their tinct. 

HAMLET 

    Nay, but to live 
    In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, 
    Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love 
    Over the nasty sty,-- 

QUEEN GERTRUDE 

    O, speak to me no more; 
    These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears; 
    No more, sweet Hamlet! 

HAMLET 

    A murderer and a villain; 
    A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe 
    Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; 
    A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, 
    That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, 
    And put it in his pocket! 

QUEEN GERTRUDE 

    No more! 

HAMLET 

    A king of shreds and patches,-- "

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...too much, you think?

Here's our scene from the recent David Tennant version, starts a couple of minutes in.