“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore A love story that was written in the sky more than a billion light years away from our corner of space-time has finally been told, thanks to researchers with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. The LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) is the […]
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Two Become One
February 13, 2016
Supta Bowl
February 6, 2016
“To accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.” ~ Pete Carroll, Head Coach for the Seattle Seahawks The word “supta” is Sanskrit and means, resting, reclined or inactive. Unlike the athletes they will be watching on TV, most people […]
Space Station Oddity
January 21, 2016
“The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.” ~ David Bowie Scott Kelly/NASA – First Flower to Bloom in Space It seems like we’ve lost too many creative artists already in 2016. Alan Rickman, one of my favorite actors, and Glenn Frey, […]
New Year’s Sky
January 4, 2016
“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation’.” ~ William Burroughs There is a lovely bit of poetry by Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo that […]
The Light Awakens
December 23, 2015
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” ~ Yoda, from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) Winter Solstice has arrived. December 21 or 22 (depending on what time zone you live in) was the longest night and shortest day […]
Joy to the Worm
December 10, 2015
“EDIBLE, adjective: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.” ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary I should have titled this post “Joy from the Worm” because joy is […]
Alternative
November 23, 2015
“Human energy is always in communion with heaven and earth in the alteration of exhalation and inhalation.” ~ From the book, Taoist Meditation: Methods for Cultivating a Healthy Mind and Body, translated by Thomas Cleary Yoga practitioners and even those with a superficial knowledge of yoga are familiar with the term pranayama, referring to the […]
Creepy, Crawly, Chocolaty
October 31, 2015
“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.” ~ Theodore Rosnak This Halloween, don’t give all of your candy away to the kids. Be sure to save some dark chocolate for the microscopic creatures that are living in your gut (in anatomical terms, gut refers to the alimentary canal, which […]
The Earth Plus Plastic
October 12, 2015
“The planet will be here and we’ll be long gone… And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: ‘The Earth Plus Plastic’… Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic […]
Shine On
September 26, 2015
“For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson A full Moon symbolizes potential realized, a dream fulfilled and a harvest ready to be gathered. […]
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