Category: Career

• July 6, 2023

  Finding My Way Back

  “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” Gandhi Today is a new day. A different day. I will not post a sutra, relate it to the moment and then go on to analyze what Satchidananda and my brain have to say about…
• May 28, 2023

  Circles

  Welcome to Sutra A Day. I haven’t written in a while. Sutra a day has become sutra a month. This morning, I find myself sitting on the couch, cat hair tickling my nose, my friends’ son humming as he wanders (a blessing) the house, coffee empty, gray day out the window behind, feeling sad and…
• March 5, 2023

  Grape Leaves

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. Yesterday, I sat in a Lebanese restaurant in south Milwaukee with an old friend. I’ve been friends with this person for 25 years now, although not consistently. In our early twenties, we were both on the fringes of a hip and edgy group of waiters, waitresses, comics, models, possible future…
• February 27, 2023

  The Child Mind

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. As I settle in to write this Monday, I recognize that I’m already thinking negative thoughts about some people, about work, about life. That there are a million things I want to do that I don’t know how to fit into my day, the day of the things I have…
• February 12, 2023

  Intentions

  They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I take issue with that.  The idea that intentions don’t matter dismisses our humanity – and our divinity. In fact, I might state that the road to the divine is paved with good intentions.  Where is this coming from? Well, I finished yoga…
• December 31, 2022

  Interlude

  The past three days, I’ve been in a cabin in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Outside the windows the snow shrouds the earth, the lakes, the trees with their boughs reaching to the heavens in mostly gray sky. There is a peace and stillness to the surroundings, if you can hear it. If your mind will…
• December 12, 2022

  Oh Purpose, My Purpose aka Dharma Dreams

  Last night, my eyes started to drizzle shut around 7:45 pm. This after a dispute with my partner – these have been happening frequently lately. Little spits and spats, over and done in 5 or 10 minutes, often of my own making. The exhaustion set in and I fell asleep feeling half empty, not half…