“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen “Perseverance is the hard worl you do after getting tired of the hard work you did.” – Newt Gingrinch “Aging qrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul.” – Douglas…

This weekend in the midst of all the chanting at Omega Institute’s Ecstatic Chant Festival, when I wasn’t dancing, I was writing. There’s something about kirtan that makes me scribble–it shakes up so much stuff (fears, joys, doubts, dreams, longings) that it must come out through booty-shaking, tears, words spoken and drawn. Here are a few…

I just got back from Omega Institute’s Ecstatic Chant festival. And OMG. I don’t know where to begin. I’ll be doing a series of posts on it (sorry if chanting isn’t your thing! check out our great archives on Fresh Living if it’s not). But I have that wonderfully juiced, alive feeling that comes from…

As you eat your morning fruit I thought you might appreciate this fun, smile-inducing pear-project. I love how they were grown this way, so peaceful on their trees. If you’re going to “modify” food, this is the way to go. The quote that went with this post, originally from Boing Boing: “Growing pears inside a…

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