“Artha means wealth. The Vedas recognizes the importance of material wealth for the overall happiness and well being of an individual. As householders, we require wealth, because we  perform many duties to uphold dharma and take care of the needs of our families and society. We should not seek wealth for the sake of wealth [...]

“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” -Mary Oliver “ … My son does this as easily as breathing, while I struggle with it most of the time and every once in a while experience it as unbidden grace. I look at him as my teacher in [...]

From my perspective, class was a little .. wonky today. We had sideways snow, and after finally upgrading my Pandora account, it wouldn’t work, then iTunes on the computer wouldn’t work and finally, the speakers subtly went in and out with use of the cd player – I abandoned music about half way through. I [...]