http://www.elephantjournal.com daily blog, videos, e-newsletter & magazine on yoga + organics + green living + non-new agey spirituality + ecofashion + conscious consumerism=it's about the mindful life. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:07:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/im-up-all-night-to-get-some/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/im-up-all-night-to-get-some/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:27:33 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=524899 I’m up all night to get lucky. Every time I almost think about possibly being over this song, I hear a new version. Here’s two brilliant ones. Get Lucky – Irish Tenor Daft Punk Cover “I wanted to make an unusual cover of Get Lucky. Here it is as an Irish Waltz, complete with stereotypical [...]]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/im-up-all-night-to-get-some/feed/ 0 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/how-would-you-feel-if-it-were-illegal-to-get-married/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/how-would-you-feel-if-it-were-illegal-to-get-married/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:57:43 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=524861 …Well, for some of our sisters and brothers, it is, of course. When marriage is a club reserved only for some of us, the institution itself becomes immoral. It’s time for all of us to be allowed to join the club (if we’re crazy enough to want in): “Awesome Marriage Equality Ad in Ireland – [...]]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/how-would-you-feel-if-it-were-illegal-to-get-married/feed/ 0 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/how-you-i-can-roll-back-the-nsa/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/how-you-i-can-roll-back-the-nsa/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:51:58 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=524766 What say you we start a massive “email to the editor” of our local newspaper letter writing campaign? Apparently it’s the most effective way to get our representatives’ attention. So apparently writing a letter in to our local paper & mentioning our local representatives is far more effective than just writing a letter to our [...]]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/how-you-i-can-roll-back-the-nsa/feed/ 0 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/write-get-set-go-elephantjournal-com-paying-our-best-writers/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/write-get-set-go-elephantjournal-com-paying-our-best-writers/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:51:58 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=524406 Writer friends aiming to live a mindful life: elephant’s doing well, growing to 1.7 million, this month (Google Analytics). So I’m once again trying to figure out a simple way to give back to our best writers for consistency, quality, sharing and popularity—all four. Colin Wiseman has been busy building up our new web site [...]]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/write-get-set-go-elephantjournal-com-paying-our-best-writers/feed/ 21 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/the-mindfullest-chair-on-planet-earth/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/the-mindfullest-chair-on-planet-earth/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:47:11 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=524343 Props to The Kitchen for buying real Emeco chairs–these things are expensive, they last forever, and are made of recycled content (Coke bottles in this case, I prefer the aluminum which I use at my home and our HQ, “Hotelephant”–the pure metal ones last 150 years and are warrantied for life and can be dropped [...]]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/the-mindfullest-chair-on-planet-earth/feed/ 0 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/waylon-reviews-man-of-steel/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/waylon-reviews-man-of-steel/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:26:44 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=524271 Just back from Man of Steel. A few observations. For the video, click here. 1. Century Theatre pretty much ruined half the movie by having the ads and movie way too loud. Wasn’t just me–at least half our row and everyone we talked to on way out was as deaf as if we’d just spent [...]]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/waylon-reviews-man-of-steel/feed/ 1 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/elephant-reviews-a-midsummer-nights-dream-at-the-colorado-shakespeare-festival-boulder-colorado/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/elephant-reviews-a-midsummer-nights-dream-at-the-colorado-shakespeare-festival-boulder-colorado/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:08:36 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=523028 “Colorado Shakespeare Festival—with Boulder’s finest young and old, families and couples on dates, & our Congressman #JaredPolis in attendance–a funny, accessible yet true to the Great Bard himself #openingnight production of #midsummernightsdream—not a bad way to spend an evening. Best of @bouldercolorado , top 10 #shakespearefestival nationally.” Photo: @waylonlewis on Instagram “This is Shakespeare not [...]]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/elephant-reviews-a-midsummer-nights-dream-at-the-colorado-shakespeare-festival-boulder-colorado/feed/ 0 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/image-note-from-enslaved-chinese-worker-put-in-product-sold-in-a-kmart-in-oregon/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/image-note-from-enslaved-chinese-worker-put-in-product-sold-in-a-kmart-in-oregon/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:05:29 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=522712 Here’s the letter a Chinese prisoner at a forced labor camp stuck in a Kmart Halloween set. FYI: 10 Yuan/month is equal to about $1.63/month U.S. Go to the NY Times for the full story. Sir: If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands people [...]]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/image-note-from-enslaved-chinese-worker-put-in-product-sold-in-a-kmart-in-oregon/feed/ 12 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/the-perfect-woman/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/the-perfect-woman/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:57:14 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=522710 elephantjournal.com isn't your momma's blog: 1.7 million readers/month, #1 in US twice for #green on Twitter, bringing "the mindful life" beyond the choir since 2002. ]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/the-perfect-woman/feed/ 4 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/the-standard-you-walk-past-is-the-standard-you-accept/ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/the-standard-you-walk-past-is-the-standard-you-accept/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:12:09 +0000 Waylon Lewis http://www.elephantjournal.com/?p=522573 "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."]]> http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/the-standard-you-walk-past-is-the-standard-you-accept/feed/ 0