Ananda's Blog
October 28, 2018
As my bare feet hit the cold marble floor of the altar during the early morning service hours I whispered, ‘Oh, so cold!’. My fellow pujari turned and smilingly whispered back, ‘Austerity!’
It wasn’t the first time I was reminded that there is a sweetness to doing someth...
October 17, 2018
This week we celebrate the Ramayana, the epic from India that centers around the kidnapping and rescue of Princess Sita. Although we may not have a prince or a princess to rescue we often have to rescue our own selves - perhaps from some bad habits that are destroying o...
October 13, 2018
The first red leaf greeted me this morning
Among the dull colors of the other fallen leaves
It’s redness smiled a reminder of time passing
A reminder of cycles of birth and death
Of leaves separating from the tree
As the body separates from the soul
We stand and watch the lea...
October 1, 2018
About a month ago I posted a blog called The Thread of Life, about a chain of islands off the coast of Maine. I’d been in Maine visiting my sister Susan and her family there. Susan’s husband, my brother-in-law George, has the intuitions of a native about the coast of Ma...