Cousin Bruce brought a couple of pictures with him this weekend and said that this picture is a "promotional" picture of him at the studio where they film his yoga show. He just started this show in July and he still is promising to take me there one day when they are making his show. He said that it is going well and he is on 5 different stations around california, usually early in the morning. I said that now 3 of our family members have been on television since Dad does commercials and Grandpa Jem's movies have played on the Western channel before. Cousin Bruce says that actually 4 have been on TV because cousin Mat was on ESPN in a bodybuilding competition. He brought a picture of Mat, well actually 3 pictures of Mat, and I will put them on the blog next time. I asked him what yoga is exactly and he said something about "harmony and balance" and "purifying the body" and stuff like that but I decided to look it up in the dictionary anyways. Yoga is "a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation". Ascetic means "characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons". An example of its use is "an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labor". "That doesn't sound very fun", I said and I asked Cousin Bruce if he lives like that and he said "not so severely". He did say that he often fasts, which he told me means not eating very much food for a few days in order to "clean out" his body. I said that I would miss eating too much, especially ho-hos, but that I might try yoga once to see how I liked it. He then showed me a couple of easy positions to try in order to help me wake up in the morning. I said "sure" and then tried them this morning and felt a little strange. Grandpa asked what I was doing and I told him that it was yoga positions that cousin Bruce showed me. Grandpa actually was speechless, but seemed to doubt its usefulness by the look on his face, but maybe considering the shape his back is in now, his silence may mean that he wishes he had taken better care of it when he was young and that there could be a very small chance that what I was doing in the living room might actually help me later in life. I still felt weird either way.