“Sometimes,” said the woman in red sitting outside the courthouse. “Sometimes you gotta,” she said to her co-workers, the red jersey Of her dress clinging to her ample curves while she kicked The granite ledge where she sat amidst a… (READ MORE)
Last night, I hopped on the bus and went from Capitol Hill to Columbia Heights to go square dancing. I haven’t square danced since elementary school, when we had two week sessions every year from third through sixth grade (I… (READ MORE)
I have been indulging in reading the thriller Angelology (complete with stories of angels and the war between good and evil), which I picked up at the Books for America shop in Dupont Circle a couple of weeks ago for… (READ MORE)
The two books I read while I was traveling to California (San Francisco for the delight of it and Lucerne Valley to study with Paul Muller-Ortega): Home of the Dancing Sivan, India in Mind. The first I picked to bring… (READ MORE)
It is hard to imagine even one day in a single year when we could lay down our country’s weapons. I am hoping that the upside of the rancorous budget battles will be an end to the United States’ current… (READ MORE)
Last week, when my friend Suzanne and I were walking out of the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park to catch the bus back downtown, we came across an island of dahlias in the middle of the parking lot. … (READ MORE)
50th birthday week in California dancing, playing, exploring, thinking, relating, connecting, witnessing, creating.
The other day, an acquaintance whom I met through yoga asked in an email whether I was still into politics or whether I was now more focused on my “inner work.” He lives in suburbia and voted for both Bushes… (READ MORE)
On my journey back from vacation and meditation intensive to life inside the Beltway. Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
During one of our sessions, one of my fellow students asked whether she was really seeking a life of renunciation because she sometimes really craved sitting quietly for meditation. For her, having first experienced meditation as an adult who has… (READ MORE)