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Live Music – video streamed from the Ashram! 7:15 MST:  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/yasodhara-ashram om om

I was restocking the snacks today; re-filling the chocolate bars and trail mixes that we had run out of and putting into storage the ones we still had out on the shelves.  I couldn’t help but buy a bag for myself to munch on in my mid-afternoon energy slump.  I’ve been hungry lately.  Partly itContinue reading “January Still”

Check out my TEDx talk if you haven’t already Clarity in the Midst of Illusions It was a lot of fun and a great community event.

My lack of posts certainly reflects a large part of my reality: I’ve been really busy.  It’s a really wonderful kind of busy where I can watch myself signing up for things to do or being assigned things to do or creating things to do that are all really quite wonderful. The holiday season was,Continue reading “It’s already mid-January?!”

I’ve moved.  My little oasis above the tool shed became too much of a utility drain with the colder weather necessitating electric reprieve from the lack of insulation in the building.  The process was itself…a process.  It worked its way into the themes I explored in my Tuesday night class: not wanting change, especially changeContinue reading “Autumn”

The area around the Temple has been undergoing some major renovations.  The electrical lines are being dug up to repair the lights that line the pathway.  It had resulted in what can most clearly be described as a moat around a part of the temple.  The assertion that bears can swim made my suggestion ofContinue reading “October Still”

There’s this moment during breakfast when the noise stops.  When people have gathered their porridge and tea, pulled their chairs in to the table, and are sitting down in sweet sweet silence to eat.  The other day that moment came around 8:14 and lasted until about 8:18.  The people who got to the dining roomContinue reading “October”

The chestnut trees are starting to turn yellow.  The large maple by the crossroad near Shakti is, expectedly, blazing with hues of red and gold.  In time the whole ashram will be transformed – more so than it already is with slanted sunlight edging through the haze from forest fires from afar.  It’s still quiteContinue reading “September”

I’m feeling a bit of empty nest syndrome.  In the porch of the building where my bathroom is a little bird had faithfully built a nest, tucked into the upper corner.  Despite it falling down one early spring day, with chunks of moss, sticks and grass spread across the doorway, this little bird persevered andContinue reading “August”

I went for a swim after Satsang again.  There’s something about the cooler evening air making the lake seem warmer that I’ve always been drawn to.  Evening swims have this magic about them.  I went out to the dock, quite the distance with lake levels the highest they’ve been in decades, and pulled myself upContinue reading “Summer is Here”