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have you hugged a witch today?
Listen up people, if you know any Witches, Pagans or Wiccans (and no, they are not all the same thing any more than Catholics and Protestants are the same) the loving thing to do is to wish them a Blessed Lughnasadh (pronounced Loo-nuh-suh or Lammas, as it was renamed by the Christians). ......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-01 14:08:45 | Rating:

| Views: 93 | Comments: 1 | Tags: Witches Pagans Wiccans Magick Lammas Lughnasadh

40 day sadhana
What the hell does that mean? Well, I'll tell you. Sadhana is the cultivation of a daily practice of yoga, ideally not just in terms of the physical asana, which is the yoga most people think of first when they hear the word "yoga". But "yoga" means yoke, or union......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-04 15:57:07 | Rating:

| Views: 62 | Comments: 1 | Tags: yoga meditation discipline Sadhana

*I call bullsht, on myself**
Let's see...there are a few things that I need to get straight, more for my own peace of mind and ability to create the life I TRULY want than anything else. When my birthday rolled around this year (in the linear time illusion) I declared this the "Year of My Truth" but I'm......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-05 16:42:50 | Rating:

| Views: 89 | Comments: 1 | Tags: relationships truth childhood dreams growth

taking a little break
Monday of this week, I started my first dedicated 40 day sadhana. 2 days down, 38 to go and so far so good! I'm actually looking forward to this because I can already feel a difference in the practice just by sheer intention. It's amazing how powerful intention is - it changes......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-06 12:55:42 | Rating:

| Views: 34 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Master Cleanser lemonade diet detoxing

occupational pot smokers
This blog is a bit of a departure for me but I feel the need to sound off about something that I see as a legitimate phenomenon in Los Angeles. This could be a worldwide issue for all I know but I noticed an increase in the number of what I refer to as "occupational pot smokers" in the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-07 18:41:57 | Rating:

| Views: 113 | Comments: 7 | Tags: pot smoking marijuana ranting and raving

a lot of damn yoga
One week ago, to the day, I began my first foray into what is called a 40 Day Sadhana...the daily practice of one specific Kundalini yoga set for 40 days straight. If you miss a day, you start all over again. The point isn't punishment, it's to experience the transformational effects of mastering......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-11 17:23:26 | Rating:

| Views: 44 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Kundalini yoga yoga Sadhana exercise

starting over
So, last night I went home with some fresh veggies to make one of Dr. Graham's yummy-sounding raw soups. I love the simplicity of just pureeing things like tomatoes and lettuce, etc to make a natural, live soup. I'd been avoiding tomatoes because of the boondoggle of the salmonella outbreak......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-12 12:30:03 | Rating:

| Views: 56 | Comments: 1 | Tags: yoga Kundalini sadhana

wake up people
The systematic stripping away of our civil liberties has been going on for ages and we now live in a country where the illusion of democracy is paraded out like a beautifully rendered campaign to keep us complacent. Everything from tracing cell phone calls to microchiiping our children is sold to......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-12 14:10:49 | Rating:

| Views: 51 | Comments: 1 | Tags: civil disobedience government hacking conspiracy

we need to S-L-O-W DOWN
I was sitting outside at lunch today, enjoying a favorite patch of grass in front of our building, underneath several different types of gorgeous trees, watching the world go by and I noticed some things...interesting things...important things. Watching people coming and going, walking to......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-12 18:23:28 | Rating:

| Views: 49 | Comments: 1 | Tags: life technology healthy living relaxation

judgements and rudeness
You know, I just want to address whoever it was that felt it necessary to rate my profile picture, which they gave 2 out of 5 stars. I'm not sure why this is even an option, but when I went into my profile this morning I found that in the course of one evening 7 people had viewed my picture and......Read More