Private Yoga Instructor Santa Monica & Los Angeles Westside private yoga classes in-home or on-location Jennifer Pastiloff Contact Jennifer (310-926-0172) Yoga at home - comfort and convenience! |
Yoga for an Ex-Gangster The butterfly was believed extinct for 11 years before entomologists walking across the site spotted one fluttering ahead of them. The Palos Verdes Blue, nearly extinct, and an ex-gangster newly released Saves her, daily. By five a.m. with his big nets,his teams- He Hunts. From his concrete jungle to the wild of a different sort, he confides in the dark gray wings of the females Whispers into the males’ upper wing surfaces, the blue quiver, coddled in between his fingertips- This, his gentle prey. A young black man brings them together to reproduce. Watch him talk to these fragile winged things, Confiding in them: he tells them what prison was like what it feels like to lose a game of cards and to rape a child molester for this misfortune. It was business, not pleasure he tells the world’s rarest butterfly. His belief that he has found something bigger than God. Extinction is a choice. Gently, he prays. He practices preservation every day on the coast south of Los Angeles, in a shrinking patch of coastal scrub community. The stone’s throw, the butterfly catcher- The unequivocal beauty in watching the hands rove over rocks, over winged creatures, The renewed hopes for survival- The transformation from the pupae into adult butterflies waiting to see what life will allow them to keep, what will return. j pastiloff |
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