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Social Media and the Stars

  photo via Kathleen Donovan The last time Mercury went retrograde I waited until the day after it flipped back conjunct to buy myself a smart phone. What can I say, I’m susceptible to these mammoth masses of atoms hurdling through distances I can’t even fathom. You know how we’re all stuck to the surface ofContinue reading “Social Media and the Stars”

Silly-String and Microchips

I vividly remember the day I cut up my credit card. Well, “vividly” might be a bit of an exaggeration as I was a little tipsy. The day also included what I will always list as one of the greatest moments of my life—seeing a Volkswagen Beetle stuffed so full of people dressed as clownsContinue reading “Silly-String and Microchips”

My Steadfast Spiritual Practice

I don’t want to alarm anyone who thinks that asanas, the physical postures, are the only thing to yoga, but I have gone for long stretches—no pun intended—devoting up to 12 hours a day to the practice. From karma yoga—the yoga of action or selfless service—to bhakti yoga—the yoga of devotion—meditation, reflection, study, you nameContinue reading “My Steadfast Spiritual Practice”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Attracts Criticism Around Comments at Climate Change Conference

  photo: Flickr Originally published at elephant journal. An opinion piece I saw in Monday’s Montreal Gazette slammed Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s assessment of the Albertan oilsands with the headline, “Tutu’s oilsands sermon built on emotion not on facts.” Yeah, I was shocked, too. Not at the Anglican Archbisop’s survey of the decimated land around Fort MacMurray, butContinue reading “Archbishop Desmond Tutu Attracts Criticism Around Comments at Climate Change Conference”

Lost: The New Found.

I found my rose quartz necklace today. It was in my jewelry roll, exactly where I would have expected to find it should I have actually looked for it there—go figure. I’d been missing it for months. Actually, I thought that I left it in a very specific place. I had come up with allContinue reading “Lost: The New Found.”

Let’s start a revolution

Originally published at elephant journal. Let’s start a revolution. Let’s stop talking about what celebrities are wearing. Would I stand on the street with a microphone asking strangers, “Who are you wearing?” Would someone be photographing it, only to put them in next week’s magazines so we can judge who looked good and who didn’t? No.Continue reading “Let’s start a revolution”

What Happens When We Learn to Receive

Originally published on elephant journal “I’m not usually like this.” Furtive words to the acquaintance in the passenger seat beside me. The back of the truck we inhabited: a 10 foot square box full of furniture we’d been picking up at various parts of the city and were taking to my soon-to-be furnished abode. Earlier thatContinue reading “What Happens When We Learn to Receive”