Lamb Lifting

New Zealand in December, 2002. Sri Chinmoy stands in a field surrounded by last spring’s lambs, all around him green landscapes of hill country, clumps of forest, above him a deep blue sky with...
28 June 2011
Lamb Lifting

In Johannesburg

Autumn has arrived in Johannesburg and behind the electrified, fortress walls of every suburban home the mannered lawns and summer gardens are under siege, buried under drifts of burnished leaves. We...
28 June 2011
In Johannesburg

The Big OE

In the early 1970s I did what most young New Zealanders do and traveled to England on my first big O.E. ('Overseas Experience'), a landmark rite of passage for us colonials, the fledgling bird...
28 June 2011
The Big OE

Farina And The Free Bananas

Life is full of charming and also poignant moments. Yesterday for example I was buying a few vegetables at my local Asian supermarket, a ramshackle and unkempt affair bustling with Thai, Korean,...
27 June 2011
Farina And The Free Bananas

Last Flight Home

I was on a flight down to Christchurch and talking with my adjoining passenger, an orchardist from Motueka, about the easy things that strangers find in common. Then he was telling me about the...
27 June 2011
Last Flight Home

World Harmony Run - John O'Groats to Lands End

In the UK, the World Harmony Run is travelling the entire length of the country from John O'Groats in Scotland, to Lands End in the tip of Cornwall in South England. Members of the World Harmony Run...
24 June 2011
World Harmony Run - John O'Groats to Lands End

Tribute To Pranavanta

Pranavanta John Montefiore, a student of Sri Chinmoy, was an exceptional artist who developed a strong reputation for his innovative and marathon artworks. Pranavanta became a meditation student of...
23 June 2011
Tribute To Pranavanta

Being Single

Writing always begins with the blank page, blankness in the mind. We sit awhile in contemplation, an attentive waiting, looking for the genesis of words, the scattered seeds of language, a spark to...
13 June 2011
Being Single

Adelaide

Adelaide after 30 years away. I do like this city – manageable, navigable, humane, good-natured. Feeling some sense of special occasion, the heart's hidden calendar of beginnings and endings,...
12 June 2011
Adelaide

3100 Mile Race 2011

The 15th Annual Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race begins today, June 12th in Jamaica, Queens, NY. Ten runners will attempt, what the NY Times describes as the "The Mount Everest of ultramarathons"...
11 June 2011
3100 Mile Race 2011

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