A Sharing about Mahashivaratri in Ganeshpuri, 2024 Description of video: Here seen is Kailas Nivas bedecked in honor of…This was taken on...

Photo - View from Brahmapuri located high on a hill in Ganeshpuri, and visited toward the beginning of March. The temples visible behind...

(Me around age three holding Peter, the cat. I must say, he does not look terribly pleased! 😄) A note before reading the story below:...

(Photo taken in El Salvador. I was probably around eleven years old.) El Salvador, located in Central America, loomed ahead of us.  I...

Our life back home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, was pleasant for the most part.  We, my siblings and I, had learned to adapt to different...

Our Return to the U.S. after Three years in Brazil School photo from Lady of Lourdes Lady of Lourdes Elementary offered a new, yet...

My first communion in São Paulo, Brazil at age seven...I remember this moment when I stood so still with great focus in the courtyard of...

What came to me this morning… In this moment, what is happening? Sounds wafting toward you. Perhaps a scent is making itself known. ...

Instructions that came my way today as I sat quietly on my couch before plunging into the day’s events… Rest in the peace…Rest in the “I...

May 8, 2023 (First gardenia bloom in my garden…Appeared this morning!..) I was sitting quietly on my couch this morning and asked for...

Recently,  Thomas Merton was mentioned in a book I was reading.  He was a Trappist monk of some renowned in the last century.  Known as a...

(Me in front of The Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica.) Being back in D.C. felt good.  I have always enjoyed academia so going back to school...

Words that filtered through one day while in a half sleep state. I was living in Guadeloupe, the French West Indies, at the time with my...

Today I was speaking with a friend and the conversation elicited a memory that took place very early in this particular incarnation… I...

The divine cannot be found elsewhere. The divine cannot be found on a mountain top or a cave…under a massive Redwood or by a ...

According to the Hindu, Indian calendar, we are in the time of Pitru Prakash. It is a time when the ancestors are honored, our family...

We all look for this on some level, it seems. That sanctuary, that enclosed safety, which assuages and protects against times when life...

Trust your instincts, your intuition. Every step of the way, feel the earth rise up to meet you. Everything in every moment is a gift...

During my graduate school years several decades ago, I made the acquaintance of a fellow graduate student - actually, he might have been...