Last Monday I had the honor and delight to be invited to a multigenerational dinner of homemade dumplings at a neighbor’s house. I was told it was customary for guests to shape a share of the dumplings; the hosts do… (READ MORE)
What are you reading this week?
Some things we need to learn to adequately navigate the environment in which we are living. Some things we can choose to learn. And sometimes, life gives us the choice of suffering or learning from what life has given us.
The philosophy and religion professors with whom I have studied yoga philosophy have emphasized that we need both theoretical study and experiential practice to develop understanding. In that light, here’s the reading line-up (though currently I am slowly making my… (READ MORE)
When I paused to photograph this marker on a DC sidewalk yesterday, I wondered how many hundreds of people have walked past it–once or hundreds of times–without noticing it at all. I connected this sense of acute awareness with a… (READ MORE)