Journal Entries, Reflections and Playing w/Fiction

  • Ashram Life in the Age of Pandemic

    Ashram Life in the Age of Pandemic

    April 5, 2020: Journal Entry The sound of spring is how I feel inside. My body and mind buzzing with happiness, with ideas and possibilities. The mandatory “Shelter in Place” has granted much-needed allotments of inspiring, blissfully, guilt-free lazy time into the lives of myself and many people around the world. The time to daydream, rest, Read more

  • 2020,The Year of Love a other Magical Powers

    2020,The Year of Love a other Magical Powers

    I met a man that I’ll call ‘Jack’. I met him on a dating website. I liked his profile, it was real and it was brief. He was looking for “someone to be close to and to care about”. To be close to and to care about, this struck me. He caught my attention with Read more

  • Rêver de Paris…

    Rêver de Paris…

    A lazy drift, on a summer wind, dipping Monarch wings into the Seine… Read more

  • Journal Entry: Purashcharana; Meditation, Mantra & Mala Beads

    Journal Entry: Purashcharana; Meditation, Mantra & Mala Beads

    Purashcharana, is a Sanskrit word that means “a forward step” or “the first step on the path of Spirituality.”  Purashcharana is a dedicated practice of several components including Japa/ mantra repetition, homa / fire offering, tarpan / nourishing of the body and mind, and marjana /cleaning the body, as stated in the book,  The Power of Read more

  • Sweetly Human: Ashram Life

    Sweetly Human: Ashram Life

    ~ April 2018 Excerpts from my meditation journal: Meditations of a divinly human Soul, being, well… human By now I know that my meditation practice requires movement of some sort, asana or a walk and the stability of a morning ritual. The hour that I lay my head down and my morning routine seems to Read more

  • ~ Death, the return to immortality ~

    ~ Death, the return to immortality ~

    Should we be afraid to return to the place we were before we were born? Read more