Questions Around Town (and Svadhyaya?)

ByElizabeth November 19, 2015

Art and Culture | Community and Family

“I just like art.”
ByElizabeth July 23, 2012July 23, 2012

I love the Vogels’ story. It is wonderful to witness such an exquisite balance of passion and moderate living. Sometimes there is not much of a why for a thing. “I just like art,” Mr. Vogel said in 1992. “I don’t know why I like art. I don’t know why I like nature. I don’t know why I like animals. I don’t even know why I like myself.”

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Think of things/activities you like or which inspire you to passion. Can you really identify why you have come to have and develop certain likes or passions among multiple things all worthy of passion (as distinguished from providing after-the-fact explanations of why such things are worthy of your passionate attention and devotion of time and energy–for example, yoga)?

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State of the Garden (Rescue Orchids)
ByElizabeth August 30, 2015

These orchids were left out with the trash in the neighborhood yesterday. Though my bags were full from a walk to the farmers market, I did not want to leave them to perish when they could yet offer more beauty.

Despite what looked like months of neglect–the plants evidently owned only for their blooming time and not their full growing cycle–there was optimistic new growth.

Time will tell whether they will rebloom. For now, they look pretty happy to have a new home.

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Art and Culture | Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Community and Family | Meditation | Photos

Petting the Temple Cows
ByElizabeth February 25, 2012February 26, 2012

After a day of teaching and more discussion and emails regarding the upheaval, I had a memory of petting one of the temple cows at Chidambaram. I was jetlagged and in sensory overload, and then I petted a most wonderful cow. I dropped into a space where I was perfectly at peace and unaware of the time and all the things going on around me. This space is always there for us, even in the absence of a sacred cow, and we practice so that we can find it more and more consistently, especially when we are being challenged.

I did not photograph the Chidambaram temple cow, although a nice Indian lady asked me if her husband could photograph the two of us with the cow, so she has a photograph of herself with the strange American lady in a sari who was petting the cow. I stopped to pet many cows after that. In one town, a man told me, as I was scritching a cow between ears and horns, that the cow would enjoy a banana.

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Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Community and Family | Meditation | Photos | Quaker

On the Way to William Penn House for Tuesday Night Yoga Practice
ByElizabeth February 16, 2016

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Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Community and Family | Gardening

Blossoms Around Town
ByElizabeth May 1, 2015

On the way to Willow Street Yoga in Takoma Park for Joe and Natalie Miller’s yoga practice to benefit Nepal.

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Art and Culture | Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc) | Meditation | Photos

Karma?
ByElizabeth September 27, 2012September 27, 2012

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