Our world is rife with disconnection. I am not referring to power grid outages. I am referring to outages affecting the human grid of love.   Most people spend more time peering into their screens than into the eyes of another human being. They spend more time in their head than in their heart. They… Read More From Disconnect to Connect

Who Amongst Us?   This particular story tells of a mysterious stranger who showed up at the door of a rundown monastery operated by several old monks who had become “spiritually parched.”   The monks noticed that the mysterious stranger had a glow about him. So they were eager to get to know him and… Read More It Could Be You (It Is!) ~ A Parable

February is often the coldest if not the snowiest month of the year. So Valentine’s Day comes at a good time. It’s a day that gives us an opportunity to share the warmth of our heart more generously and extensively. It can even be a day to thaw a cold heart — our own or… Read More Find the Sweetness in Your Heart

Hello and Happy New Year   For certain, 2023 promises to be another interesting year. You are likely to see plenty of challenges and opportunities — individually, nationally and globally. You might think the easy route (and a tempting one) is to escape from the world. But wherever you escape to, you still have your… Read More The New Year Brings Challenges and Opportunities

Walking with the Wind From the memoir of the same title, written by the late civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis     [A]bout fifteen of us children were outside my aunt Seneva’s house, playing in her dirt yard. The sky began clouding over, the wind started picking up, lightning flashed far off in… Read More Walking with the Wind

In mid-August (2022) I sent out an announcement saying something like “I have shingles but our roof is fine.” Some of you mistook my quirky sense of humor and thought we were closed because of problems with our roof. Our roof was fine. My head and face weren’t. I had shingles, an infection caused by… Read More My “Roof” and Shingles

Well, I took on the challenge to slow down this past month – at least when I remembered to! Here’s what I experienced the first time I tried: On a Wednesday in early August, I had an appointment at noon in Florence (east of Northampton) for a treasured monthly cranial-sacral therapy session with Gretchen Jennings. Florence is an… Read More Slowing Down – Haltingly

A story that’s been circulating for a while, with a great lesson for all of us:   “Some years ago, I was stuck on a crosstown bus in New York City during rush hour. Traffic was barely moving. The bus was filled with cold, tired people who were deeply irritated with one another, with the… Read More Get a Lift

  The pessimist sees the glass as half empty. The optimist sees the glass as half full. The engineer sees the glass as twice as large as it needs to be. The Svaroopa® yoga teachings would go even further. The teachings would say the glass is already full and always has been and always will… Read More Raise Your Glasses!

The Fourth of July has come and gone, but what about the independence it celebrates? As a nation: so far so good. From the yogic perspective: the independence of each human being is considered first and foremost. The strength and independence of a nation depends on the strength and independence of its citizens, as well… Read More The Ultimate Independence and Freedom Starts with You