The universe kept SOS’ing me about fostering animals: the Humane Society was offering a foster training, RezDawg Rescue needed foster parents. My nearly 15-year-old girl kitty, Mukti, had recently died, and her brother, Bhakti, and I were still devastated, sodden with grief. I had no intention of bringing a new animal into my life so [...]
We declared independence from Britain for the sake of some inalienable rights, but what happened to them? Spoiler alert: Greed. So much meddling, so little time! While all ears and eyes were recently glued to the congressional hearings re Russian interference in our elections, cybersecurity experts alerted us (well, those of us listening to NPR) [...]
What to do when the devil has orange skin & the worst comb over ever & wears ill-fitting designer suits? There’s an old saw among spiritual practitioners that if you think you’re making great strides in your evolution, just spend a week with your family. Family’s a piece of cake compared with the current challenge to [...]
A Cleanup Goddess Called Mom Takes On Her 'Hood Standing in the kitchen with my teacher Sharon Gannon, who was visiting, gazing out at the overwhelm of my Colorado backyard, a newly transplanted New Yorker gone from apartment owner to house renter, I was bemoaning the fact that because I didn’t own the place I was [...]
Master Class & Book Party with Sharon Gannon You Don’t Want to Miss This! Sharon Gannon, world-renowned yogini and master teacher, is nothing less than a 21st-century Renaissance woman. The founder, along with David Life, of the Jivamukti Yoga Method — a vigorous vinyasa practice that incorporates ahimsa, scriptural study, devotion, meditation and music — [...]
Well, the world did not end at the end of 2012, but maybe it was time to bury our obsolete perspectives on how we think the world should be or is or can be. The message coming from various directions — the movie Zeitgeist (more on that in another post), astrologers, all-knowing ones — is [...]