Roger Coleman, principal minister of the Church of Iron Oak, longtime friend and author of the monthly Solar and Lunar Celebrations of the New Age in Horizons Magazine, has his hands full with more pressing projects and he’s scheduled the October 2010 column to be his last. Second only to the horoscopes by Barbara Lee, [...]
I spent some time this weekend whittling down my Facebook friends list. I removed a lot of business names and names of people who had their occupation listed as part of their name. I appreciate hearing about what people do for a living, but I don’t care to be solicited. What interests me most about [...]
Lunar Cycle Turns Hurricanes Into Beasts by Michael Reilly, Discovery News — Werewolves aren’t the only terrors that follow the lunar cycle; hurricanes strengthen more often under a new moon than at any other time, according to a new study. The moon’s spooky influence on Earth and its denizens is legendary, and rightly so. From [...]
Jan Phillips writes in The Huffington Post: I woke up last night to the sound of laughing and realized I’d fallen asleep with the TV on. It was 3 AM and I knew it was Jon Stewart but I had to fumble around for my glasses to see who his guest was. Unbelievable! It was [...]
The past couple of weeks I’ve been cleaning my floors repeatedly. Moving furniture to clean the floor beneath it, taking everything away from the wall and away from the corners to get the entire floor’s surface. My typical m.o. is a quick sweep, vac and swipe with the Swiffer wetjet. But lately I’ve been cleaning [...]
I was at the market with a friend the other day and there were no ripe bananas. I told him to put them into a paper bag to ripen quicker. He was going to just put them in the cabinet but I told him they needed to be in a paper bag. I knew the [...]
Tonight for dinner I made aromatic rice with garlic and peppers. Here’s the recipe, it serves two. Into the rice cooker, along with one cup of jasmine rice and 1.75 cups water, add:
1/2 tsp crushed cardamom seeds (buy in Indian market)
1/4 tsp crushed fenugeek seeds (buy in Indian market)
2 star anise * 1/2 tsp turmeric [...]
In Trend Alert! ‘Dating Down’ Hits Hollywood, Jo Piazza writes: “In Hollywood, many celebrities have adopted the habit of dating down. So why are so many famous stars trading in their equally famous spouses for major downgrades? It’s always easier to date down whether you’re a movie star or a regular person.” Hmmm. I don’t [...]
The fruit of meditation is realizing that your bad habits are simply self imposed burdens that you choose to discard when you are ready.
RELATED: Andrea’s Meditation Process
Meditation Twice a Day Keeps the Outside World at Bay
Preparing For Relaxation; Preparing For Meditation; Daily Practice
Herbert Benson’s Relaxation Response is Transcendental Meditation minus the ritual
Paving neural pathways to [...]
