Beautiful Ache

(alternately titled “Moss Breath”) Monday, July 7th, 2008 The other night at the sauna, as I gave myself over to the heat and felt it wrap its burning fingers around the last cool flesh on my body, I wanted to cry. It’s not that it really caused me...

You Lose…You Win

Monday, June 17th, 2008 If you love something…let it go. If it is meant to, it comes back to you… Such simple words to contain such an unbelievable secret, and incredible mystery. I used to think these words were a consolation only, something to comfort...

Running for Sekhmet

Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Why am I like this? Why, oh why am I like this?… I thought as I literally ran through the great, columned halls of Karnak temple. Everyone else was poking around like a good tourist…but I had to be running, top speed, ready to take a...

Let Yourself be Freed

Sunday, May 25th, 2008 I have decided that yoga is essential to my well-being. It isn’t that I become someone else when I do it…it is that I become more myself. Everything begins to roll off of me in waves, and I begin to shake the dust off of my wings,...

Enjoy

Monday, May 12th, 2008 On a long night with friends recently I was talking to the Buddha during a quiet moment.  I had been sort-of complaining about how most people think that enlightenment is a far-off goal that you obtain when you reach “perfection,”...

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