State of the Garden (Red Maple)(and Golden Yellow)
The red maple takes all my front garden and stretches over my neighbor’s; the glorious yellow is down the street. Such wild abundance before the bare months.

The red maple takes all my front garden and stretches over my neighbor’s; the glorious yellow is down the street. Such wild abundance before the bare months.

Ether (akasha) is the fifth of the mahabhutas. In science and perception, it is the space between the other elements, it is that in which the other elements reside. It is to some degree, the critical element of how we are able to perceive the other elements. I find focusing on the Anusara alignment principle…
This morning at the United States Supreme Court in support of the nomination of Judge Katanji Brown Jackson. Please let your elected officials know your support. The naysayers were out with those showing support. Let us raise our voices in support and have our cheers silence those that would drive us further towards heedlessness and…
At “Taste of DC” here come (not in any particular order): 1. Respiratory diseases from air pollution resulting from cooking methods, factory farmed meat, manufacture of packaging, and food transportation. 2. Antibiotic resistance from factory farmed meat. 3. Diabetes from refined sugar and carbohydrates. 4. Cancer from food additives, food cooking methods, manufacture of plastic…
The great texts and teachers of meditation exhort us to look within with the promise that by so doing we will find great peace or bliss or splendor. For many, though, initial attempts at meditation are just as likely to reveal troubling aspects of the self or agitating thoughts as any sense of beauty or…