This weekend I hopped on a train and visited Ananda Ashram, a yoga retreat center in the Catskills. I’d heard about it for years but never gone, and am now wondering why my friends didn’t just drag me up there sooner. It was lovely–leafy, peaceful, with swans and geese and clean food and yoga and…

“The only thing that can fulfill you is being yourself and that’s inseparable from now, the field of now. That frees you, it liberates you from the world…then you walk around with much less heaviness…at the moment humans are very heavy on the planet, wherever they step life gets exterminated and that has to do…

Today “Dr. Beach,” a.k.a. Stephen P. Leatherman, released his annual “best beaches” list. At the number one slot–Hanalei Bay beach in Kauai, Hawaii. It’s a choice close to my heart. I lived in Maui for several years after college, and I recall my first thoughts when the plane touched down on the tarmac in Kauai–“This makes Maui…

At my local Whole Foods, they have these incredible, huge green olives that are slick with oil and fragrant with chunks of garlic and lemon.  I can barely contain myself around them – though they’re so garlic-y, they are best eaten either alone or in the company of others who like them as much as…

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