Best Dressed at the Academy Awards

So who's up for an award and for what?   I do suspect Avatar will win something. In the meantime, I'm easily amused by the photographs of the best "?" dressed on the red carpet. If it wasn't for YAHOO making me go through three separate steps to get to my actual email, I probably wouldn't have known that today was the Academy Awards. In fact, I suppose I should be grateful for YAHOO "news" or I'd unlikely never know anything in any kind of timely manner so far as world events and news. If it doesn't appear as a YAHOO headline, on FRONTLINE or on a Rachel Maddow show, then it's probably not in my radar.

I know. I used to listen to BBC every now and again. Occasionally I get on BBC kick and listen daily. Generally, I find most of what we consider "news" these days so depressing that I actively chose to keep my knowledge limited to YAHOO headlines and Rachel Maddow. I'm certainly not recommending this policy to anybody. For the record, I do actively watch loads of news before elections and before I vote. At least I can say that I try my best to be an educated voter.

....back to the Academy Awards.....can you imagine the meters of taffeta, sequins and glitter used on all those dresses? I always wonder if the dresses are made locally or by semi-slave labor so that our movie stars can glide down the red carpet for all of one minute per year. As I find myself thinking how uncomfortable most of those dresses look, especially for sitting through a long Academy Awards program, I also wonder what I would wear if I were ever invited to attend the event. Of course, I'm certainly not a movie star (yet anyway...I keep waiting to be discovered!) so whether my outfit would make YAHOO news or not might be in question. But my answer is clear: I would want to wear something locally-made and produced, preferably organic and comfortable. If we could make it stylish and even a bit funky, all the better. Of course, I also realize that this is mostly how I chose to dress anyway in my daily life. So I guess I'm not that far from my fantasy lifestyle. Making conscious decisions about how I live, what I wear and the impact on the world is part of my daily yogic analysis of where I'm at and what I'm doing and how I'm doing it.

However, I do have to admit that Sandra's dress is pretty darn amazing.......