Category: Sutra A Day

• March 11, 2023

  Bound By Love

  Welcome to Sutra A Day. I have been remiss. In the past couple of days, my brain has been completely full. There have been disappointments, there have been plans and possibilities, there have been injuries, there has been overwhelm.  So I’m going to skip my flowery intro. My finger hurts. I feel itchy in my…
• March 7, 2023

  Cream Cheese

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. My hairdresser is a 26 year old girl who alternately knows and is above everything and is vulnerable and sensitive. She is voluptuous, often wears an Electric Forest t-shirt and looks at you expectantly through wire-rimmed round glasses. Her hair is a different shade of red with every visit. She…
• 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…
• March 4, 2023

  Insatiable

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. Last night, I went climbing with my friend S.  Climbing with her is always an adventure, and not because it’s climbing. Beyond navigating color-coded routes on brownish gray walls in a gym filled with adolescents, hanging by ones fingertips, inhaling chalk dust, and the elation of solving a problem by…
• March 2, 2023

  Oboe Not Duck

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. I hear a bird squawking outside reminding me of band when I was a kid, specifically of the oboe. The oboe can be a beautiful instrument, but in the hands of many junior high school band members it can also sound a bit like a duck in pain. Junior high…
• February 28, 2023

  The Sixth Sense

  Welcome to Sutra a Day Today we dive right in. I’ve got 15 minutes to think about this sutra.  There are five? 6. Prmana viparyaya vikalpa nidra smrtaya. “They are right knowledge, misconception, verbal delusion, sleep and memory. You remember yesterday? We talked more about the concept of these mental modifications being either painful or…
• 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 26, 2023

  The Ocean

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. Sunday has arrived and with it the beauty of winter sun which is somehow sharper than that found in the heaviness of summer. Sometimes I go to church, sometimes I listen online, sometimes I go to yoga, but for me, this day is usually one of some sort of attempt…
• February 24, 2023

  Frenzied and Frozen

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. It’s a Friday, the venerated end of the work week for those of us in 9 – 5 office jobs. It’s a day when we – if we have boundaries – leave work behind and head into the realms of pleasure, however we define it in our mind. I’m using…
• February 23, 2023

  Grandma’s Basement

  Introduction Although yoga teacher training has come to an end, my learning and seeking certainly have not.  Recently, I found myself returning to Sri Swami Satchidananda’s book, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. I kept jumping around seeking wisdom with a mind like a grasshopper. Which sutra was it? What had seemed so deep and impactful…