Tag: spirituality

• August 27, 2023

  No Sutras Here

  I’m typing this from a guest bedroom in Bangalore. I’ve been in India for just over a week now, but it feels oddly like a month. And while I’ve seen so many things it also feels like I’ve seen nothing. Many people I know are going on trips to India soon or are on them…
• August 8, 2023

  Life Lessons

  I’m listening to some dreamy, stardust strewn indie rock music. I turned it on to tune out the sounds of arguing voices outside the window, the conflict, the fear, the anger, I needed a tool to keep them out. I could shut my window, but then I also lose the feeling of the cool night…
• July 26, 2023

  Shuffle

  Two steps forward, one step back as the old saying goes. Life feels a lot like that. Sometimes it feels like one step forward two steps back. My career has often felt like one step forward, three steps back. I’m practiced in the art of self- sabotage. The thing is, these thoughts come from a…
• July 16, 2023

  You Are What You Think

  Recently, the Midwest has consistently been under air quality alerts. Air quality first became something I thought about in December of 2019 and January of 2020. Even though at that time this crazy little virus had popped up in China, it hadn’t spread yet – or so we thought – and you know, maybe it…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 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…