The moon was incredibly full and bright in a clear sky tonight. When I was walking home from work, I saw a tourist taking pictures of the Capitol. “You’ll want to photograph the moon,” I said, after having just taken… (READ MORE)
It is pretty much always a dance between shadow and light, concealment and revelation. Can we remember the beauty of illumination when we are in the dark and the coolness of shadow when things feel too bright?
Something was going on; the police detoured us North around the highway. I wondered for a moment whether it was at all related to the fire last week, and then I remembered that the filming of Transformer 3 is disrupting… (READ MORE)
A friend once said that when he heard sirens while he was meditating, he used it as a reminder to share the light of meditation. It is easy to think of roads blocked by emergency vehicles and blaring sirens as… (READ MORE)
one must be blissful in the present moment.
NYC, Philadelphia, DC.
This is the second round of fruit ripening on the small tree I brought into the garden this spring. Will these figs ripen enough to be picked before the first frost?
I would not be walking through Lincoln Park past a sculpture of Lincoln emancipating the slaves. There might not have been any slaves to emancipate. My great grand parents might not have made the trip from Eastern Europe to Ellis… (READ MORE)
I loved this collection of ties and sign outside the Studio Gallery in Dupont Circle. It served for me as a great reminder of the tantric yoga invitation to make and share art with our very being, with each other,… (READ MORE)
To walk around and marvel at the clouds. Even on the busiest of days, or ones when work or other commitments make it so that we do not have much time for sky-gazing, we still always have a few moments… (READ MORE)