Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. -Albert Einstein I have been wrestling with the best way to tell the following story for months because the experience was so simple and seemingly every day and yet completely profound and life changing. This past fall, about a month after school started, I […]
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What Happens When You Hold Your Breath?
“What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?” -Rumi When we inhale, our diaphragm tightens and contracts as pressure builds in our expanding chest cavity. This sets our lungs up to suck air in through our nose and mouth on its path to our air sacs and eventually […]
Take A Road Trip to Refresh Your Perspective
But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed so much like another that one could not feel them pass. Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Where does the time go? Is it that time already? How time flies. In […]
Unplug to Save Energy
My great aunt used to unplug all her appliances when she wasn’t using them. She would even turn off the water running to the washing machine when she wasn’t doing laundry. I have been thinking about her a lot lately and how she would softly float between outlets and say, “I unplug to save energy.” […]
One Simple Ingredient
There are many people we love unconditionally but there are only a few places in the world where we have felt unconditional love. The most loving ground we have ever stepped foot on was the Ananda Kurjana Ashram and Orphanage in Indonesia. It is a place that exists because of love, grows out of love, […]