Dear Friends, I got nothing today. I'm uninspired. Let me open a Yoga book and see what pops up. From my notes in the margins:*Yoga as a reaction to the practice of manipulating the physical environment for sense gratification e.g. sacrificial offerings for boonsA boon is a thing that is...
New to gardeningAdam and I bought our first house last fall and inherited a beautiful garden from the previous owner. Seeing as how this is my very first garden to tend, I'm working on the advice of neighbors who point out weeds, a whispered request...
"To understand what follows the reader must...
Make it stopRaise your hand if each passing year of your life brings you more awareness of the world that generally, well, hurts to be aware of. ::raises hand:: Young people know what's upI was listening to a couple youths on the radio (first audio file under the...
"The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are."-Erasmus A quote made more poignant when a quick Wikipedia study on Erasmus reveals he was most likely a gay man serving loosely as a Catholic priest who, to distance himself from the...
My Yoga studies are evolvingI've gotten tired of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, to be incredibly honest, and I'm looking to other paths to the practice to reinspire me, and fill out what I've learned in the last couple years of Sutra studies. Don't get me wrong, the Sutras are important...
I often don't know what I'm going to write to you these Monday mornings until I sit down at my computer and start typing. I try to wake up with an idea, but inspiration isn't always at my bedside.I suppose it might be if I...
Accidental Monday morning soundtrackThis morning I woke up, as I usually do on Mondays, wondering what I was going to write for my newsletter today. I wound up with a song in my head. You know the one that goes "put a little love in...
The History of Yoga and Why I'm not a YogiI'm a yoga practitioner and a yoga teacher but I am not a yogi. Let me tell you why with a bit of the history of yoga.First, Sutra StudiesMy friend Mayuko and I meet up on Zoom,...
DistractionsI wonder how many things are going on around you at this very moment? How focused is your attention on reading these words?Do you feel like you really have the time to be doing this, or perhaps there are a line of impatient thoughts waiting...