Tag Archives: spirituality
Post Tornado Stress Disorder
A tornado hit my school when I was eight going on nine. It was April, 1989. I remember that morning the sky was clear, a perfect blue. Flawless. Not a single cloud. Dad drove me to school on his Yamaha motorcycle. I felt cool riding to school on a motorcycle. I liked wearing the helmet [...]
what would mary do?
Back then, I believed that all the energy manifest in the world was Divine in nature. A genderless, inhuman, unfathomable God created our Universe and human consciousness. Sure, Jesus Christ is the Son of God, or an incarnation of God in human flesh. Many worship and serve him. That’s great, more power to them. Some [...]
The eight dazzling truths of yoga schmoga.
My friend Lynn spent 17 years living in Nepal and Zimbabwe with her husband, studying Buddhism, teaching yoga and soaking up diverse cultures. When we met in 2009, I asked her that most common of questions, “What kind of yoga do you teach?” She leaned in and confided, “You may not have heard of it. [...]
