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Warm Feeling (from an unexpected place)

Author: Elizabeth January 28, 2009 0 Comments

For the past hour or so, one of my neighbors has been shoveling the sidewalk.  He is a young teenager; for a while a younger girl was out with him, too.  They both had shovels and were working pretty vigorously. … (READ MORE)

Community and Family

Wintry Mix

Author: Elizabeth January 27, 2009 0 Comments

As I write, big fat flakes of snow are falling against a pale gray sky that is struggling to turn to daylight.  It is too early to know how much of the storm will be snow or freezing rain or… (READ MORE)

Community and Family, Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc), Meditation

winter weather

Baksheesh and Brahman

Author: Elizabeth January 25, 2009 0 Comments

I spent a few hours this weekend reading Joseph Campbell’s  Baksheesh and Brahman, which is Campbell’s journals from a year in India from 1954-55 (I’m now about a third of the way through).  Campbell writes that he went to India… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc)

Baksheesh and Brahman, Joseph Campbell, the Beats

Mahabhutas (the great elements)

Author: Elizabeth January 23, 2009 1 Comment

The mahabhutas are the grossest, most physical of the 36 tattvas described in Kashmir Shaivism.  They are:  prithivi — earth or solidity; ap (or jala) — water or liquidity,  agni (or tejas) — fire or formativity; vayu — air;  akasha… (READ MORE)

Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice, Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc)

Kashmir Shaivism, tattvas

A Personal God (Ishta Devata)

Author: Elizabeth January 21, 2009 0 Comments

My earliest exposure to eastern mysticism was through Salinger and the Beats, which I read avidly in high school and even junior high.   The Beats were hipper and smarter than I could ever hope to be (and they weren’t so… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc)

the Beats

Buy a Coffee Mug (and never forget)

Author: Elizabeth January 20, 2009 0 Comments

I didn’t buy a coffee mug, but I did take the picture.  If only remembering was as easy as buying a souvenir.  Memory, though, it much more ephemeral.  I’ll remember this day.  Sometimes I will deliberately recall it.  Sometimes, images… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Community and Family

Inauguration

Privilege and Periphery

Author: Elizabeth January 20, 2009 0 Comments

At about 10:30 am, I left my house and walked over to the Capitol.  I knew that by leaving the house at that hour, instead of at 7am, I would be outside the fence, but I instead practiced in the… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Community and Family

Inauguration

Aerial View

Author: Elizabeth January 20, 2009 0 Comments

If I had been born a different person and chosen an entirely different career path (say a secret service agent), I might have had a view like this today.  Would it have been worth it?  So interesting to watch the… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Community and Family

Inauguration

“Yes We Can”

Author: Elizabeth January 19, 2009 0 Comments

Yesterday’s inaugural concert spurred all sorts of memories from me.  When I was a child, we went a number of times to the Clearwater Revival Festival and other folk festivals where Pete Seeger was a headline.  He is just ten… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Community and Family

Inauguration

January Cold

Author: Elizabeth January 18, 2009 0 Comments

Here’s a picture of the chard I harvested last Wednesday.  I don’t usually harvest that much at a time just to feed myself, but it was harvest Wednesday or let it die back.  I have most of my chard plants… (READ MORE)

Food for the Body

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