Happy New Year
May you may most fully discover your dharma and experience peace, joy, and good will along the way.

May you may most fully discover your dharma and experience peace, joy, and good will along the way.

To study with Paul Muller-Ortega, to gather with fellow students, to meditate, and to chant (with reverence, sensitivity, and honor) the names of Shiva.
Ganesha helping me wave goodbye to the patriarchy. Artist: Deborah Oak Cooper, gift from ReyaMellicker.com
The white flowers growing with the tomatoes and cucumbers (cages) and the beans (red supports) are coriander that over-wintered, and gave lots of good leaves from late winter through mid-spring. I’m now letting them go to flower and then seed. I like to use the flowers as a garnish. Still green and newly forming coriander…
If I have done this correctly, it is Christmas day (Boxing day for those of you who are email subscribers). If all is on schedule, I am basking in warmth (though possibly with lots of rain) witnessing ritual that in form is another world than Christmas in the cold United States. At another level, it…