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Into Each Life a Little Cake Must Fall: Lessons from a Cake-Tastrophe

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This is the tale of an epic Cake-Fail. It felt, at the time, like an absolute disaster. Real disasters, like earthquakes, tornadoes, wars and disease put this story in perspective. But in our day-to day lives, there are experiences that feel like disasters at the time; experiences in which survival adrenaline is at work; in […]

Sri Hanuman Chalisa

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About Forty Verses of a Song (and a few extra verses for good measure) in a Language I Don’t Really Know that Mysteriously Opened a Doorway to the Divine Heart (Part One) My mentor, Ron Roth, once told a story of St. Francis of Assisi. A spiritual aspirant had come to St. Francis on some […]

Ramayana

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The Ramayana: How an Ancient Tale Slowly Made a Monkey Out of Me About 20 years ago, I was standing in Borders Books in Stamford CT, leafing through this beautiful and expensive hardcover volume that I decided to buy for a friend of mine who was an artist as well as an India-phile. An artist […]