This past summer, while browsing in a bookstore, I happened upon a slim volume devoted to the landscape paintings of a still-living Massachusetts artist named Mary Sipp-Green. If I were a painter, I would want to paint like her. I thought you would be similarly moved by these paintings. They have an ethereal quality that…

I am touched by your warm, supportive posts. They make me see that we could indeed develop a large community of like-minded chatterers. Let me know about the religious or spiritual practices you observe, the teachers you’re drawn to, and the workshops you attend. Of course, the web makes it possible for us to sit…

I was recently fumbling through the sun salutations in a yoga class with a teacher who was new to me. Sun salutations are always a challenge since I prefer, like most women, I think, the more feminine, “yin” yoga postures–the floor stretches, the seated forward bends. Ahh, then I can relax. But standing postures like…

Bone 1.Understand, I am always trying to figure outwhat the soul is,and where hidden,and what shape and so, last week,when I found on the beachthe ear boneof a pilot whale that may have diedhundreds of years ago, I thoughtmaybe I was closeto discovering something for the ear bone 2.is the portion that lasts longestin any…

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