I have always had an ambivalent relationship with anger. Let me explain. When I was a young girl, I felt that child’s sense of utter freedom and abandon to be myself. And anger was just one emotion in the spectrum of feelings. Even as a teenager, I still felt safe to express my anger- at…
For the past three months or so, I seem to be drawing to me all sort of literature and films that are connected in some way to Rumi. Books. Novels. Documentary films. Poetry. Last week even the Bollywood movie I shared had a song set in a mosque in Turkey – with Sufi mystics dancing…
For those of you who are readers of my posts, you know how much I love Bollywood movies! Yes, they are long, and they are usually musicals, and many times, they are hopelessly sentimental and romantic too. ? But the thing is, that I grew up watching Bollywood long before knowing anything about Hollywood movies.…
One of my Buddhist teachers at the local Rochester Zen Center once shared that whenever we visit with family or if they visit us, we can see this as ‘grist for the mill.’ What he meant was that family – especially close family, like parents, siblings, spouse/partner, and children- offer us a unique opportunity to…
This past week I was blessed to be part of a mini-retreat here in Rochester, NY with my friend Sarah St. Claire. Sarah has devoted her life to sharing the message of peace, love and forgiveness based on the teachings of A Course in Miracles. After our group gathering, I spent some one-on-one time with…