Tag: love

• July 7, 2023

  I Just Say Amen

  Despite my complicated relationship with yoga and yogis these days, I still follow along on some forums. In one of these, there was a question posed about whether or not yoga and Christianity are incompatible. In general, the consensus was no, but the people who would say yes are probably not the ones talking 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…
• April 16, 2023

  Who-man?

  Welcome to Sutra A Day. Lately, I’ve been contemplating a couple of ideas. One is what does it mean to be human? Artificial intelligence, for example, more and more has the ability to create that which seems human-like. So is it this divine spark within? Humans aren’t always loving or kind, in fact, they can…
• 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 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 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…
• January 13, 2023

  Waking Up

  I’ve started this morning ritual. The alarm goes off and the inky blackness of the room swallows me. Bed is never more appealing that in that conscious state of not quite wake, when you can appreciate a good snuggle in the covers and a pillow on your cheek, the feeling of being held for a…
• January 7, 2023

  We Are One

  Today, we return to the yoga teacher training after breaking for the holiday season.  Happy 2023 everyone! This is our final month, which seems unfathomable. Will we really have 200 hours on January 28th? Impossible. Also, I know nothing. I have scratched the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Me, teach?…
• 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…