Signs Around Town


What if we were to cease to think of discipline as constraint, as punishment, as something confining and unattainably rigorous, something satisfying only in having suffered for gain? What if we were to understand it, as Swami Chidvilasananda, suggests as discipleship, a cleaving to the path out of the exquisitely blissful yearning for the light? …
On this Boxing Day, day after another Christmas with no tree on which to perch, the Christmas tree top angel, looking more like a fairy godmother, found a dance with Shiva Nataraja and his cohort.
The Indian equivalent of the pony ride, is, not surprisingly, the elephant ride. This elephant, who is now 37 years old, became the giver of rides for tourists and birthday parties after having been rescued from malnourishment and the back-breaking labor of years of hauling lumber. I was lucky enough to be able to get…
I spent all of the afternoon in the front garden, cutting back last year’s growth to make way for this year’s new growth. Before gardening, I went on walkabout in the neighborhood.
Has anyone else— Upon having received the Second vaccine shot for COVID-19 (But not necessarily for variants) and after Feeling the weightlessness of relief— Suddenly remembered They are still afraid of ticks Bearing Lyme’s disease?