Being human
and life's little mysteries

oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tatsaviturvareṇyaṃ bhargo devasyadhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ prachodayāt Earth Space Heavens. We meditate on the Divine...

Richard Pilnick Where do we go when we disappear? What risks would you take if you weren’t so attached to your name, face, physicality,...

Choose any given day on a street corner in a bustling city, and you will see bodies in motion.  All around, sirens scream, motors throb,...

In my life, I have never seen a time with so much instability that appears to be so widely out of our control. According to the press,...

When you orient yourself towards something, you point yourself towards it, literally or figuratively. The Orient is an old-fashioned...

I used to love New Year’s Eve. It was chance to put the challenges of the past year behind me and recommence life with renewed energy and...

Back in the days when photography development was manual, the exposure process was a mixture of excitement, patience and instinct. Timing...

During the course of August month took time to recover from spinal surgery, resting near a pond that is connected to a river which opens...

A memory of my five year old self exists, sitting in my mother’s giant eggshell yellow Pontiac station wagon on the way home one day from...

Warning: The below story contains a few lines that may not paint a pretty picture. but hey, is life always pretty? On Christmas eve, I...

sat-sangatve nissangatvam, nissangatve nirmohatvam, nirmohatve nishcala-tattvam, nishcala-tattve jivanmuktih, bhaja govindam, bhaja...

Four years ago today I got a call that saved my physical body . I can rely only on my fading memory to travel back to that time when...

Life all around us can sometimes feel like a chaotic blur. Things to do, people to meet, places to go…these out of body tasks mount up...

Let’s face it. The transition from August to September can be dramatic for some of us – full of events that remind us of that the end of...

I spent last weekend looking (mainly up) at trees. They are beautiful to behold at this time of year, with their sometimes spindly,...

There has never been a time when the earth has been more inhabited. People, plastic bottles, car parts, computers and chemical byproducts...

Life provides us with the opportunity to be fluid and mobile, or rigid and fixed. This is as true in the body as it is in our mind. Hips...

If you consider yourself a Survivor, you may be feeling an inner strength that is unique. You may have ongoing fear of whatever it is you...

Someone recently told me that I should visualize taking my head off of my body to see the world differently, implying that I over analyze...

It may not always seem like it, but we are all seeking a way to be in relationship – in our body and in the world. We rely on these...