Living in the mountains gives me ample opportunity for viewing breath-taking overlooks, stunning summits and panoramic mountain balds. Of course, it usually takes a bit of climbing to reach there. Sometimes the journey takes us up and up until gradually we begin to...
Sometimes we can find new directions by bringing together the wisdom of the past with a vision for the future. The science of yoga speaks to us about becoming one with our inner selves. But this effort becomes difficult when our social lives are fragmented by...
By Ramesh Bjonnes Popular food writer Michael Pollan’s slogan for healthy living pretty much sums up how to live a long and healthy life: “Eat whole foods, mostly plants, not too much.” But if we want to refine that slogan with a few more details in terms of nutrition...
It’s voting season again and it’s often a trying experience. Repetitive political ads of questionable validity, additional junk mail, polling phone calls, and more and more of your mental space taken up by politics. Then the decisions – who or what to vote for. For...
Cultivating the Patience of the Gardener by Sid Jordan In this age of information “overload” there is a lot to mentally sort out in deciding what to give our energy to internally and externally. This interior and exterior landscape, the “Garden Entrusted to Us”,...
