We had a wonderful and powerful gathering watching the movie Penelope together this past week. Penelope is a 2006 British-American romantic fantasy comedy film about a girl born into a wealthy family with a nose of a pig due to a family curse. To free herself, she must be loved by another also from a royal and…
I wonder what your background and upbringing have taught you about responsibility and guilt. In my culture, being a first-generation Indian immigrant, I felt an acute sense of pressure to achieve and become something in both my professional and personal life. Now, it is wonderful to aim for excellence in our lives and act from a sense…
One of the biggest challenges that seems to come up for me and for so many in my life is how to move through uncomfortable emotions such as fear. We don’t want to pretend we are not feeling anxious and fearful yet we also don’t want to live life from fear. Every emotion is here…
During this past week, I kept hearing the word ‘forgiveness’ inside my mind. Specifically, I heard about forgiveness being a medicine that can remedy all our pain. The pain we feel when we lose our home or other material possessions. The pain we experience in our body when we face a physical illness. The pain of separation from…
I realize that I have not written many blogs in the past few months; my most recent one was shared on July 22nd – the Feast Day of Mary Magdalene. What can I say? I feel very grateful that during these past months I was able to travel out of lockdown to visit my elder…