If you hated missing that vast Yoga Journal yoga conference in San Francisco ten days ago, Yoga Journal’s website provides blogged synopses of numerous workshops. “Our breath is our constant companion, a lover who has picked us up from the moment we’re born, until the moment we leave,” says teacher Angela Farmer in one session.…

“Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you–indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.” –13th-century Sufi master Ibn…

My father is recovering from double pneumonia and gets out of the hospital today, so I’m going to South Carolina this afternoon. I’ll be able to cook, keep Dad from driving himself to the grocery store, and forbid him from getting back on his NordicTracktoo soon. When it comes to fitness, my 91-year-old father is…

“Woman, how divine your missionHere upon our natal sod!Keep, oh, keep the young heart openAlways to the breath of God!All true trophies of the agesAre from mother-love impearled;For the hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world. –third stanza of “What Rules the World,” by William Ross Wallace, reprinted in a newly…

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