Siva’s Ashes
Three layers of cloud The color of ash stripe the Forehead of the sky.
Autumn Greetings–Web Version of E-Newsletter
Dear Friends, Yesterday, after I was done working and back on my personal computer and before I went to lead the Tuesday night yoga practice at William Penn House, I wrote to President Obama. I write to the President and… (READ MORE)
The Goddess(es) and the Green Tomatoes
When someone tells me I need to see the Divine I can get anxious that they mean I’m supposed to see whatever that person thinks is “the Divine.” I don’t think anyone ever should be required to do so by… (READ MORE)
Found Quotation
Ellsworth Kelly at the Phillips Collection
Trishula
The trishula represents all the philosophical threesomes: sat cit ananda (being, consciousness, bliss); iccha, jnana, kriya (will, knowledge, action); siva and shakti and the dance of relationship between the two. The me and the you and the us–for where there… (READ MORE)
Found Quotation
Found Quotation
Including the potential manifestations of our abstract thinking. Remembering 9/11 and thinking about how we might act going forward to foster peace. That requires, I think, facing and responding and balancing some hard truths about ourselves. Yes, I am speaking… (READ MORE)
Found Exhortation (Ambiguous)
Is that: 1. Telling “love”, the emotion to be kind? 2. Imploring the writer’s loved one to be kind? 3. Suggesting to be kind by loving? 4. Exhorting one and all both to be kind and to love?
Today Ganesha Is Wearing
Earth, heart, sky; animal, plant, mineral. Smooth pearls (of wisdom?) But rough- edged the prayer Bead. Freshwater pearls, with garnet, fluorite, rock crystal, rudraksha seed, and a bit of laboradorite.
Doesn’t Everyone,
including the yogis or perhaps especially the yogis, Patanjali’s urging to avoid getting caught up in the pair of opposites, pleasure and pain not withstanding,