July 11, 2013 What is the best way to approach a new city? Take the bus tour! So that was the main part of yesterday, but before that I watched the changing of the guard at the citadel. The citadel … Continue reading
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Tonight I’m sitting on a mat in my patio outside my studio in Rimrock CA. This is good for doing restful breathing. Tonight is peaceful and it’s absolutely quiet. I can see a billion stars. It always takes me time … Continue reading
Here is my translation of the oldest creation “story” within Hinduism. (Rig Veda 10/129) In fact it is not a story. It is a best speculation or guess. Yet without a doubt it is one of the oldest hymns of its kind … Continue reading
12/30/11 Rim Rock One of the hardest things a parent can do is send a child away to school, especially a four year old child, yet that’s precisely what Kama Nagari and I did. We sent Vrindavan, our first son, … Continue reading
February 15, 2013 Something truly amazing happen today. An astroid, half the size of a football field, barely missed the earth by only 27,000 kilometers and meteor crashed into a city in Russia and hurt over 1500 people, mostly from … Continue reading
12/13/11 Our first temple was in my home at Warkworth. This was a really bad idea. To mix a public temple with a private home is to put tremendous strain on any family. Every morning at 5 AM about 20 … Continue reading
02/22/13 Dear Naty, Growing up in the 1960s school had two divisions, the elementary level and secondary level. The elementary level went from kindergarten to grade 8, and the secondary level went from grade 9 to grade 13. This secondary … Continue reading
This evening the desert is beautiful, and except for the sound of a few crickets and the distant cry of a coyote, it is peaceful and serene. There is no moon tonight, so I sit in the dark on my … Continue reading
Saint Petersburg October 23, 2012 Pulkava 2, Saint Petersburg’s international terminal, is just a decade old, yet it looks much older, in fact, desperately antiquated. It’s hard to imagine a more inefficient system of processing passengers, and the absolute worst … Continue reading
October 20, 2012 St. Petersburg Russia St. Petersburg and Moscow are about 700 km apart, more or less the equivalent of San Francisco to Los Angeles. This morning I boarded a high speed train, the Sapsan, at 7AM in St. … Continue reading