Signs Around Town
Found Exhortation?
Someone has been walking around Capitol Hill with pink chalk and drawing circles with smiley faces inside. Impermanent graffiti made longer lasting by the drought. What is the message intended? How many people have noticed (at least one friend of… (READ MORE)
Sculptures Around Town
Christina Sell Writes About Teaching at Willow Street and Suzie Hurley
I had the good fortune to be able to study with Christina Sell last weekend at Willow Street. Christina writes here about the Willow Street community. Her gracious words reveal the light in her own teaching and personal expression. I… (READ MORE)
John Friend Blog Post on the Summer Solstice
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)
First Step in Problem-Solving?
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)
Two Ways of Looking at Things (and Women: Count Your Apertures)
My studies today (it is a very rare day that I do not read some of a yoga text or commentary) included a mention of the body’s nine openings. The yoga treatises ubiquitously mention the “nine openings” of the body… (READ MORE)
