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Friday, May 4th, 2007
Transcendental Dry Cleaning
I took a quick trip home to visit the folks in Buffalo this past weekend. My big sis, Nicole, and cousin, Natalie, turned 30 and a big party marked their achievement. Being surrounded by family and friends, I was showered with many precious gifts like unconditional love, material comforts, and lots of reality checks.My mom’s […]
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
The Birth of the Spoon Revolution
I’ve always had a slight obsession with soup spoons. Now I understand why. Check out this flick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4sK1PZHWPg
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
bREAD & pUPPET upDATE
The revised list of BREAD & PUPPET’s upcoming performances is as follows:WESTERVILLE, OHOtterbein CollegeThe Main Quad(In the gym if it rains)EVERYTHING IS FINE CIRCUSSaturday 4/21, 2 pmDELAWARE, OHOhio Wesleyan Universitylocation to be announcedEVERYTHING IS FINE CIRCUSTuesday 4/24, 4 pmOBERLIN, OHOberlin Collegelocation to be announcedEVERYTHING IS FINE CIRCUSWednesday 4/25, @ 4 or 4:30 pmATHENS, OHOhio UniversityStudio […]
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
apples, i’m home.
What can I say about these kids? Now 3 1/2 months old, Kesava and Madhava are truly the apple in my eye, the curl in my hair, the puff in my chapatti, and the highlight of my every day. The last two weeks, myself and Balabadra Prabhu, one of the old-timers around here, […]
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
I have a devotee friend by the name of Ram who liv…
I have a devotee friend by the name of Ram who lives in an ISKCON temple outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. He draws wonderful pictures everyday. This is one of my favorites.
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
The drums will sound. The battle has begun.
Yesterday was an ecstatic day. Balaram Candra came back from India and delivered me my very own mrdanga! A mrdanga is an Indian drum with two heads, one large and one small, traditionally used in the temple during kirtan. Like an organ is to catholicism, a mrdanga is to Vaisnavism.Because it was questionable whether or […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Whirling Dervishes meet Krishna Consciousness
This week I celebrated six months residence at New Vrindaban. Six months! What’s even better is that I’m ready for six more. I never thought I would be content to reside in one place so long, what to speak of Bethlehem, West Virginia, but I’m happy. I now understand what my mom meant by saying, […]
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
UDDER-ly hopeful
A nice break in the weather affords a most auspicious opportunity to bathe the cows. Three months of severe winter has resulted in three months of accumulated dung cake on the thighs of Mother Tulasi. I properly applied full hose pressure and nothing happened. What now? One hour later, arms sore […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Hit the showerz..
“As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.”-Bhagavad Gita As It Is (2.13)I woke up this morning and felt really good. I thought to myself, I […]
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
To those who worship life itself…
Have you ever opened up a book and felt like that page was written just for you? Upon picking up Dear Sky, Letters from a sunnyasi, early this afternoon, I had a sneaky suspicion this is exactly what happened. Thus, I will share with you a page that hit me upside the head. The […]