For the past three years, yoga has become a deeply meaningful part of my life. I first started practicing because I wanted to become more flexible and get a "good stretch," but over time I fell in love with the deeper rooted meanings behind the practice. Through yoga philosophy, breathwork, and community, I started to realize that yoga is something far beyond just movement.
Raised in the 1970s, in what was then Yugoslavia, she grew up in a state-run housing complex in present-day Slovenia. A teenage modelling contract saw her whisked around Europe and then, in the Nineties, to the United States, where she eventually met the unassuming, mild-mannered property tycoon, Donald Trump. It is a journey that bridges Europe and America, an aspirational story of a little girl with nothing but a perfect jawline, the sort of tale that draws the eye of Hollywood.
However, Mamdani didn't win simply because of who he is. He won because of what he did, the politics that his campaigns were based on - a platform that focuses on the cost of living, from utility bills to grocery bills to bus fares to child care to rent - and, more importantly, the feelings, the trust and cohesion generated in the network of people who organized with and for him.
Mohabir's poems plumb and reimagine the history of human interaction with these aquatic mammals, classified by science as cetaceans. Mohabir's poetry is as existential as it is timely, political, and emotional. Each poem invites readers to contemplate the wondrous-what it's like to be alive, for cetaceans and for Homo sapiens. Within the space of a stanza, he roves through questions about scientific classification, immigrant identity, carnal desire, and climate change.