Some months ago, I purchased two Rambouillet rovings from Ani at Widdershins that she had painted like this: Beautiful, right...

I am posting this photo for no specific reason other than it is of Colette.  Those with long memories may recall that she invited us to...

Well, not really.  Clearly there is no limit to how we will cause suffering to ourselves and each other.  May I suggest that one thing to d...

My dear, dear friend Colette is very ill.  Colette has influenced my life in ways too numerous and subtle to be able to tally them up.  This...

Did my yoga-related haiku make you want to gag?  Just a little?  Well, here are two from a young master of the form, Ms. Lucy Love. Pancak...

Since 1955, Loes Veenstra knitted over 500 sweaters and stored them in her home on the 2nd Carnissestraat in Rotterdam. The sweaters have ne...

In the Ashtanga primary series, there are two balancing postures after most of the standing postures.  One of them, Ardha Baddha Padmottanas...

Thank you to Shawn, who no longer blogs (more's the pity) but does post some pretty lovely things on Facebook. Is there anything mor...

The Devil made me do it.  Yah, yah, yah...I know, the Devil is none other than yours truly, take responsibility, don't shift the bl...

There is a moment in almost every art project that I take up that has me cursing this seemingly uncontrollable desire to make stuff.  It usu...

Is he looking for light within the darkness or finding darkness in the light?  Hmmmm...I'm not so sure. In any case, it is always a...

For the intensive training period this fall, we have been studying Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way .  In addit...

It is no secret that I am a bit of an Anglophile.  George Eliot can do no wrong in my book, or in her books for that matter.  I am a devoted...

Better photographs to come - this was the only one I managed to take before my camera battery died. Instructions Not Included opens to...

Doing nothing is, perhaps, one of the most radical things one can do today.  There is endless pressure and treme...

Please join me for the opening of the exhibition, Instructions Not Included , at ArtSpace in New Haven, CT, this Friday from 5 to 8 ...

Our neighborhood in Queens was not among those hardest hit by the hurricane but it took its toll nonetheless.  We enjoy the shade of 85 yea...

The up-side to Hurricane Sandy.  Last week, I was supposed to be at sesshin - had planned to be there since August - but it was not to b...

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Once, in a public forum that was recorded and posted on the internets, I said that I would gladly die for my children.  And I meant it. ...