Sheltering in Place

[thatguy]

They say if you do headstand, you must do shoulder stand. They balance each other somehow. If you don't , you'll become an egomaniac or go mad or something. Iyengar practitioners are stalwart on this point. I hate shoulder stands too.

Must find a giant...

--tg

Wut?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_o..._of_giants

The phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants" is a metaphor which means "using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual progress".[1]

It is a metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nani gigantum humeris insidentes) and expresses the meaning of "discovering truth by building on previous discoveries".[2] This concept has been dated to the 12th century and, according to John of Salisbury, is attributed to Bernard of Chartres. But its most familiar and popular expression occurs in a 1675 letter by Isaac Newton: "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."[3]

In Greek mythology, the blind giant Orion carried his servant Cedalion on his shoulders to see for him.

--tg