by swanriver | Apr 28, 2021 | FOM
Pushti: Ripening to Release written by Meghan CW My grandmother hadn’t spoken a word for quite a while when I was called into her bedroom on my 18th birthday. Grandma’s caretaker was a dear friend of the family, an energetic elderly woman named Darlene....
by swanriver | Mar 31, 2021 | FOM
A Perfect Mess written by Keith Porteous “We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.” – Anne Lamott When I was growing up in the 1980s, time with my...
by swanriver | Feb 25, 2021 | FOM
Spring & Ayurveda written by Taylor Tidwell “Life runs in cycles. The wheel never stops turning. No matter how dark the night, morning comes. No matter how cold the winter, spring comes. When you feel despair, know that the wheel is turning. Joy will...
by swanriver | Jan 27, 2021 | FOM
I Am Sky: On Emptiness, or Shunyata written by Laura Cherry I am privileged to know an extraordinary and precocious six-year-old with a deft imagination. One autumn afternoon, I watched him construct a makeshift umbrella by piercing large leaves on one end of a tree...
