In 2003, a man named Dave Bailsford became the performance director of British Cycling. The team had never won more than one gold medal in a single Olympic competition since 1908. But Bailsford had an idea about how to change that: the team could look at everything that affected their performance and improve each of those things by just one … Read More
Dear Everyone: Pilgrimage is unpredictable. You leave home with an idea in your mind of what your heart is longing to see, where you expect to have your most meaningful moments. God laughs and gives what He knows you need. I spoke of this trip as going to Jerusalem. Among other reasons, that was why I was so intent on … Read More
Swami Kriyananda talked with me about moving to India or possibly Italy when I visited India in 2012. I was there to do some creative projects at his request. The first day I met with Swamiji, his opening remarks to me were “Well, how do you like India?” I’d barely seen India. I was sick on the way over and … Read More
Dear Friend, Janmashtami celebrates the birth of Sri Krishna – the compassionate descent into human form of this great avatar of ancient India. “Whenever virtue declines and unrighteousness prevails” the Lord proclaims in the Bhagavad Gita, “I manifest Myself to protect the good, destroy evil, and to establish dharma. For this I am born in every age!” Krishna came again … Read More
Dear Everyone: I’ll start where we are now. Galilee. Jerusalem is the most dramatic part of the life of Christ, but Galilee is where much of his mission took place. It was here that he “gathered round his chosen few….in their youth, in their joy, all they asked of God was freedom to love.” That’s the whole teaching. And we … Read More
During my early years of nurses’ training, I took a job on Saturday mornings piercing ears at a local department store. In the early 1980’s ear piercing was a new fad and stores wanted people with medical training doing the procedure, so they recruited students from the local nurses’ training program. Since it was a new and exciting fad, there … Read More
