The neighborhood is full of churches and temples and other places of devotion. Sometimes I look at them more closely than others.


I meant to go somewhere else. When I got outside, I found my feet taking me to the river.

Finding interest and gratitude in the small things.

most of us might ask, who have the health, education, material well-being, and computer access and skills to be able to read this. “Not luck, but grace,” Paul Muller-Ortega advises that Swami Chidvilasananda would say. For this grace, practice gratitude.
When we fully recognize that what we have are gifts, then it should lead us naturally to want to use our gifts to serve and share our well-being.