Some Highlights From This Morning in the Garden
Included in what is not shown: the tomatoes I ate before I brought the camera outside and the herbs I used to flavor the salads I made for dinner.
Green America’s List of Toxins to Avoid in Personal Care Products
Green America has prepared a helpful list of ingredients to avoid in personal care products, which I offer to you if you are not already familiar with these ingredients and where they are likely to be found. Which of these… (READ MORE)
Eating Local, Annamaya Kosha, and “Human Landscape Dance”
When my friend Mac asked if I would let my readers know that his dance group Human Landscape Dance will be performing at Dance Place on Saturday and Sunday, July 9th and 10th, I agreed without hesitation. As I was… (READ MORE)
Here Come the Grapes
This morning I ate the last of the blueberries from the garden, but the grapes are starting to ripen. Here come the grapes. Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Loops and Spirals and the Still Point at the Center (NYC, Vt, Long Island, DC)
My trip to the Anusara Grand Gathering was some loop of a trip, spiraling and pulsing between urban and rural, quiet time and enthusiastic gathering, old places and new scenery. Last Saturday, I took a morning train to Manhattan, where… (READ MORE)
Sign Around Town and Found Exhortation
Imagine what our world would be like if we based our societal structures on the premise that every being should never have to miss lunch. Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
The “Highest First” and Knowing What Is a Weed
Webster’s On-Line Dictionary defines a “weed” as”any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.” At first blush, this might seem… (READ MORE)
Watching the Figs Grow
I have a small tree in a pot; it will never grow large enough to fruit with exuberant superabundance. I will have a few precious opportunities to taste a sun-warmed fig right from the tree. My tree will also serve… (READ MORE)
What’s For Breakfast?
Snowpeas, tri-color beans. Peppers. Cherry tomatoes, basil (blueberries and strawberries did not make it out of the garden). A student asked me the other day why I garden–was it to save money, he asked, was it for better tasting food?… (READ MORE)
It Does Not Get Much Better (and Satcitananda)
The key concept of yoga–satcitananda can be elusive, like all abstract concepts in the yoga philosophy and in other philosophies or areas of study. We are given metaphors and analogies in the texts to help us recognize when, through our… (READ MORE)