Today we have our first snowfall on the ground, and I have my first little cold of the season.  Back soon.

from Meditations on the Mat
Day 31
When abstention from stealing is firmly established, precious jewels come.
Yoga Sutras
The third yama is asteya, or nonstealing. Asteya serves as a wake-up call, prompting us to remember all the ways, big and small, that we steal – the borrowed books still on our shelves, the corners ...
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When your four year old child takes you on a tour back through the tantrums of 18 months, and 2 1/2, and 3 1/2 . . .
Try to breathe. Breathe deeply, and often. Before she wakes up, push your giant pregnant self up out of bed and go downstairs. Pratice anoloma viloma ...
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Happy Fall everyone!
Well, it’s a bit late, but I thought I’d share our September menu. In many ways, I’m working to simplify life here at home, getting ready for baby to arrive this winter. For more than a year now, I’ve been making weekly menus, but I decided it was time to take ...
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There have been a lot of posts floating through my mind this past week, but this is probably the only one I’ll write, because it’s the one that really matters.  On Thursday, my husband is driving from our home in MA to Washington D.C. , to get arrested trying to stop the XL Keystone Tar ...
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There is so much to love in late summer.  Right now, it’s actually chilly and pouring – we lit a fire in the woodstove today so that the laundry would dry, but that was fun, too!
It’s interesting to look back on previous years at tomato time, and to see how it always seems equal parts ...
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We have a little spring cold here. Illness, it seems, makes me get very philosophical. This time, these questions came to me:
Do we think ourselves fragile, easily disturbed, hard to recover?
Or do we think ourselves strong, believe deeply in our innate ability to heal?
The questions go past illness, to our very Selves, I ...
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I’m thinking about this:
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi -
and also, this:
“. . . a Hassidic story [tells] of a wealthy man who invited his Rabbi over for dinner. The man brags that ...
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This week, a brand new washing machine arrives at our house.  Many of you know that I’ve been washing all of our clothes by hand for the past year (with a few exceptions, when I’ve been sick or otherwise overwhelmed, and I went to the laundromat).  Last fall, I sold our old noisy washing machine ...
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Have a great weekend everyone!