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Celebrate I think the holiday season is still sinking into me, resting slowly into my cells and my memories.  It’s as if I haven’t quite fathomed just how wonderful it was.  Perhaps I could say that about my entire year here.  The holidays were amazing.  It was truly a time of Light and celebration thereContinue reading “January”

Shifts  Once when I was in grade two a friend of mine was sick one day. When she came back she was slightly behind in whatever it is we were doing that day. For some reason I think we were learning the multiplication table. Is grade two too early to be learning the multiplication table?Continue reading “December”

Saraswati In cleaning up my room and putting away some sheet music in my guitar case I notice the symbolic placement of it in this four-walled haven I call my own.  Upon entering the door of my room, looking just to the left will find a bookshelf with the middle shelf holding many things whichContinue reading “November”

Sunlight and Shadow The days are getting shorter and shorter making mornings thicker and thicker with the strange sort of subtle energy they hold.  I take in the grainy sights of the falling leaves and the mountains over the lake every morning.  The very same mountains that seem as though someone grabbed hold of them,Continue reading “November So Far”

Change There are about fifteen tables in the dining room at the ashram.  The seven or so residents and swamis sometimes eat in the Buddha Study, a separate room just off the dining room but the rest of the 31 people at the ashram right now eat dispersed amongst those fifteen tables for three mealsContinue reading “October Still”

Entrainment A particularly interesting part of me is watching how I adapt in so many situations in order to make others feel comfortable.  Well, at least, my definition of comfortable and what would make me feel comfortable.  A couple came into the bookstore a few weeks ago and wandered around, fingering the jewellery and makingContinue reading “October”

Moving Sept. 7th This morning the vibrations of a strange mix of a delivery truck in reverse coupled with the gobble gobble of wild turkeys made it to my ears.  The seasonal changes at the ashram included a big move; switching Budda Loka, a building that has been a men’s living quarters for six years,Continue reading “September”

Beach Dinner After a cold a rainy Spring it seems like we have been taking full advantage of balmy summer days by having dinner on the beach nearly every Sunday.  It’s usually a spontaneous, special event with little notice until finally announcements are made and requests for help to load the old red truck withContinue reading “End of Summer”

Duality I live in a world of duality; it is the nature of life I guess.  Hot and cold, light and dark, cause and effect.  Nothing escapes its polarizing spectrum, nothing in this dimension anyway, nothing I’ve encountered on this physical plane.  Lately I’ve been caught in a particular duality.  I’m fluctuating between everything havingContinue reading “August”

Pie I have this vision of a pastry chef making dough.  The kitchen is quaint and well-organized.  Everything the chef needs is quickly within reach.  Magic happens in that kitchen.  Simply upon stepping into it one realizes that there is a vibrant energy of creative nourishment quietly present there.  In this vision the chef isContinue reading “Choice”