Found Exhortation
Recognizing what a privilege it is to be able to do so, I daily educate myself about what is happening outside the walls of my house and ask myself is how can I best increase safety, health, and joy for… (READ MORE)
Signs Around Town
Fostering community and joy is also part of the resilient resistance.
Found Exhortation
What we do matters even if it does not (or apparently does not) change the big picture. I find contributing in some way helps me feel less despondent, even if that is because I have occupied my mind with positive… (READ MORE)
Signs Around Town (and Sadhana)
Found Exhortation (at the People’s March, Washington, DC)
Historic Anniversary and Yogic Discernment
January 6 is yet another day so historic it warrants reflection and impetus to action on every anniversary. (That might be resting, by the way, if you spend much of your temporal, energetic, and emotional resources in the efforts to… (READ MORE)
Signs Around Town
I bumped into former neighbors on the street and one asked whether I was currently leading a regular, public yoga practice. I invited them to invite themselves over to my house to practice. This invitation goes to you, too. It’s… (READ MORE)
Bhakti
I went down to the White House and joined a prayer vigil for ceasefire and disarmament in the Middle East led by the Franciscan Action Network. Another group was beginning a march on front of the World Bank, pointing out… (READ MORE)
Atonement
The first question I ask myself just about every day, is how my life contributes to the causes of war and environmental harm. The the second question is what am I going to do to minimize the harm I have… (READ MORE)
Every Life a Universe
This evening I attended a gathering at Meridian Hill Park with several hundred Jewish people and a some allies and a few dozen police (not sure whether the police were there intentionally to be threatening or to be of supposed… (READ MORE)