The morning after I wrote this post, I woke up at 4:27 — three minutes before Sadhana was to start — with a terrible cough that’s clung to me for two days now. I fell back into my pillows and slept until 7:00 a.m.
This morning, same thing. I’ve been coughing violently all day, trying to [...]

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This morning marked the third day of a week-long Sadhana at my beloved local yoga studio.
Sadhana is a spiritual practice that entails a lengthy morning prayer at 4:30 a.m., followed by a half-hour or more of yoga, followed by an hour-plus of chanting meditation. The practice ends by about 6:45 a.m.
Though I was looking forward [...]

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When my dad was a young man, he spent summers working in the canneries and crab traps in Alaska to pay for college.
One day he and a Norwegian gentleman, who was spending some time on the trap with him, rowed ashore for a break from the waves and the wide-open sea. They spied a group [...]

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