This Week in the Garden
Basil, chard, mint, cucumber, echinacea, lavender, lemongrass, jalapeno, kale, thyme. Picked all the egg plants and the cucumbers big enough to eat before taking the photographs. Not a good year for tomatoes.
Hope Springs Eternal
Uma and Sully know that if they keep coming to their food bowl at some point it will be full. So too, I am firm in my belief that if I keep coming to my mat and my meditation cushion,… (READ MORE)
Good News on Proposition 8
But what should we think about doing next?
Mid-Summer at the Fresh Farm Market (Yum)
Shiva Nataraja
This murti of Nataraja has been in the window of a store near where I work for at least 20 years. I often walk past is and just as often stop to admire it. I have never really considered taking… (READ MORE)
1 in 20 (D6 Bus)
1 in 20 people in DC have HIV.
A Long Day
I left the house this morning around 7:30 to go up and teach my regular classes at Willow Street, Takoma Park. In the afternoon, I led a restorative workshop. It was delightful to be with two dozen yogis who decided… (READ MORE)
This Week in the DOL’s Elevators
Cloud on Cloud
At first glance, it might appear that there is just one fluffy white cloud in the sky. A more careful look shows one strangely sunlit cloud amidst a skyful of thunderously gray clouds. How often is what we think we… (READ MORE)
This Saturday–Summertime Yoga Extravaganza (website version of emailing)
Dear Friends, I’ve just returned from a wonderful meditation retreat with Paul Muller-Ortega out in Sedona. Every time I go on retreat, I am reminded of how essential it is to take time out from my busy life to rest… (READ MORE)