Apr 11, 2014 | Blog, Svadyaya
Facebook inspirational memes and yoga blogs will lure you into thinking you should be chasing your dreams or you’re not fully alive. I get it. I have a habit of quitting it all to run head-over-heels after things that will make me happy, or at least away from...
Nov 22, 2013 | Blog, Svadyaya
A friend came over to my place the other day and was complimenting me on some decorating touches I’d added, then said it still looked unlived in, though I’ve been here going on three years. As I looked at my mostly bare white walls in my living room, my bedroom...
Nov 6, 2012 | Blog, Svadyaya
Before I left L.A. in 2007, I kept visiting psychics at magic shops around town, asking whether I should move to Austin, Texas or Paris, France. I remember one at the Cauldron in Silver Lake told me it was a toss-up, that I might very well meet a cowboy with horses in...
Oct 3, 2012 | Blog, Svadyaya
About a year or so ago when I first started to read the Bhagavad Gita, the epic about the internal war we all fight, I came across some lines in Ram Dass’ excellent Gita explainer book, Paths to God, that stuck with me. Talking about Arjuna, who doesn’t want to...
Jul 31, 2012 | Blog, Love
I graduated from college in 3 1/2 years. I say this only to show how anxious I have lived most of my life. I’ve sat on the edge of my seat looking ahead at what could be, maybe, if I hoped enough, if I proved to be good enough, if I worked hard enough, if I was lucky...
Jul 7, 2012 | Balance, Blog
Last week, I took my first vacation in several years. A weeklong trip with my family to celebrate my dad’s 60th birthday. We stayed in a cabin on a lake in New Hampshire for a week. Together. Barely any mobile coverage (we almost all have AT&T, so…) There were...
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