I traveled all over the place. 20,000 miles hitch hiking alone, 7 times from ocean to ocean. I travelled for a few years with an artist named Harold Schwan and that’s a whole nother story! But in the course of these journeys we spent some time in Ann Arbor Michigan. I met a guy who [...]
On the streets of San Miguel, walking to breakfast one morning, I heard my name and turned, making nice, “Hi how are ya?” and then realized it was Svaha my dearest friend from rolfing school whom I had not seen since she visited me in 1983 here in Madison. She is lost treasure returned to [...]
My Friend Dennis raised chickens and had them named and treated them with incredible love and care. Its odd to think of a world without Dennis. Here in Madison when my neighbors chickens are laying and telling the world about it I always think of him. and when I have my hands in the [...]
I am travelling through the west: texas, new mexico and colorado and am starting to dream of reading tarot cards in my sweet new room that I finished in late november just before it got cold. I love reading the cards, meeting people head on looking in their eyes and saying: “what do you REALLY [...]
5.30 a.m. The bombs started. KAAAA-BOOMB! I know its the procession of the devoted walking from the church at Atotonilco 17 miles from here. They left at midnight carrying the statue of “El senor de la columna” and they are warning us they are coming into San Miguel and we should wake up! They carry [...]
May I be happy May I be free from harm May I live with ease and joy May I live with equanimity May you be happy. May you be free from harm May you live with ease and joy May you live with equanimity May all beings be happy May all [...]
Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yoursðnever doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness. Your success and happiness lie in you. The [...]
We had our first of four dances of universal peace here in San Miguel last night at Alameda 1a in colonia San Antonio with Grace Marie a terrific dance leader from Colorado. Here is a picture of the founder Samuel Lewis doing the dances in the 70′s. We hope you will come dance with us [...]
Some of you may know I have an alter ego when I work my “day job” as SISTER AURA on the site www.keen.com where in less than a year I have taken thousands of calls, which sometimes goes something like this: “Hello this is Sister Aura, what would you like to know today?” “This is [...]
The dictionary describes OBSESSION as the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistant idea, image, desire, etc. or as the idea. image. desire itself or the state of being obsessed. I have been pondering this state and the way it can make us crazy, resistant to change, impossible to coach. I was surprised [...]