Water is in physical form one of the things you need to survive, needed to live as one must drink or absorb in a way some form of it, as life – be it plant, animal or sentient life – seems to depend to a large degree on this element in order to survive. Water is often associated with emotions, art, time and especially healing and philosophy. It has the depth of a philosophers soul and is the inspiration of…
Don’t abdicate your ancestral American birthright of liberty through political ambivalence. Use your conscientious objection, aka your buying power and your time, to make a statement by taking small steps to lower your carbon footprint, grow your own and get off the grid. The revolutionary spirit of liberation and hope always and everywhere remains, even dormant or confined to dreams, like a seed culture, ready anytime to multiply, thrive, and transform, given the right conditions. They need to germinate, grow,…
Warm breeze with the scent of flowers in the air. Traditionally, seeing a robin means good luck. Gypsy folklore tells us that it brings good luck to see the first robin of spring. Not only is the robin a promise of new beginnings with the new cycle of spring in our midst, it carries symbolic meanings of cheer, joviality and lightheartedness. The robin’s song tells the tale of “Live, love, laugh and be happy” and that is precisely what the…
Walking the streets of old town Alexandria after navigating the DC traffic, at my stop in this lovely spot on my trek South, I contemplate the unfolding process of my life’s journey and the myriad of lives from which I have sprung to be here now. I stop for cheese and olives at a wine shop, looking forward to my therapeutic appointment with my subconscious, seeking answers to questions that have not yet fully formed. “Quantum theory thus reveals a…
