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Blossoms Around Town
Lunch time trip to the tropics (U.S. Botanical Garden)
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Appropo of Ayyappa
Reading today’s article in the Washington Post, “Women Fight for Access to Sacred Places in India,” and appropo of my recent blog post on Ayyappa, reminded me of what led me to the law. I am conscious that relative to most of the billions of women on this planet, I have had extraordinary opportunities. I…
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Signs Around Town
Be careful what you pursue, when, how, and with whom.
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One of Many Ways to Respond to the Blizzard
Share cookies. And when I go fully back online tomorrow, give an extra donation to So Others May Eat. The organizations that help the hungry and homeless are, I’m sure, strained beyond capacity.
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Some Idiosyncratic, Feminist Musings About Ayyappa
Ayyappa is the half-brother of Ganesha and Subramanyam. Ganesha and Subramanyam’s mother is Siva’s wife Parvati. Ayyappa’s mother is Siva’s brother Vishnu while he was the woman Mohini. Even in the glossed over versions that don’t get into what a modern reader might think of Ayyappa’s mother, he is the extra and unwanted child of…
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On the Way to William Penn House for Tuesday Night Yoga Practice (and State of the Union)
I tried to take a picture of the brief snow flurries that greeted us on the way home, but they were too sparse to be photogenic. The sounds of helicopters circling, too, defied documentation. We offered our loving best energy as we practiced just steps away from the preparations for this ever critically important event.