New Age Forward
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it John Muir Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones Proverbs 16:24 If you want to gather the honey, do not kick over the beehive Abraham Lincoln Bees are one of the…
Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet. Give me something, Good to Eat Folklore I love festivals. Now in my fifties, I have the time to celebrate them, Halloween being my favorite. So much so, that I use Halloween motif tableware all year round. It makes me feel connected to my community. Best of all, the…
One person can make a difference, and everybody should try. John F. Kennedy I am not religious. I just love God. I see him in fluffy clouds, grains of sand, flowers my friends bring me, in people I interact with, in vibrant cerulean blue, everyday use – shatter proof melamine dishes with a flower painting…
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Declaration, 1930 Dear United States of America: Happy birthday to you. #243. PLENTYI first came to the United States in the Fall of 1990. On Target shelves, I saw scented garbage bags and olive pickers. I was delighted to see that…
The kind souls and sacred, secure grounds that comprise Ayurvedagram provide the infrastructure, healing modalities, ambience and skilled, dedicated experts under whose tutelage I first hand experienced a lifetime of accumulated stress in my gross body start to melt away.
I own perhaps twenty bags, majority of them made out of cloth. Like me, the miles they have traveled are evident. They contrast sharply with the bags owned by celebrities like Kylie Jenner. She had a room built specifically to house them; her favorite ‘shelf’ being the Hermes shelf. During my research for this blog,…
I was an early adopter of alternative medicine and modalities. I didn’t require the proof of scientific studies to know that being in nature was calming and invigorating at the same time. Or that a weekly scalp massage with ayurvedic oils reduced my hair fall. Despite being a traditional allopathic doctor, my mother used Homeopathy…
For the past ten years, I have been using Facebook. Quite regularly. My son created my profile and chose a flattering photo, which to date remains my profile picture. If I could easily edit it and add 2008 to it, I’d feel better. Because it’s my best. But my intent is not to trick anyone…
I don’t sleep much. It’s a waste of time my mind says. It’s taken over my soul and I feel I am in execution mode, dictated by what it tells me to do. I don’t feel I am governed by just my senses. There are many factors, and I don’t have the time to analyze…