September 14, 2013
(a ficto-meditation) My Manhattan hostess was totally yoga-rific. She was putting me up in her flat while I was in town for an Ayurveda thing. At […]
September 2, 2013
What happens to the psychic space once occupied by belief? Does it remain vacant? Does it echo with its previous song? Do we reach for something similar, or different, to fill it up? Do we want to fill it up? When we feel that something is missing, is this merely the unfamiliarity with a positive new space? Is losing a belief similar to losing a relationship, or a person?
August 18, 2013
Why does a thing need to be reconstructed? What exactly has been lost? Childhood? Homeland? Faith? Is there a motivating insecurity? Is reconstruction the public response of private lives that are felt to have fallen into disrepair? And when we reconstruct the thing on the dance stage or in the yoga studio, how do we deal with our awareness of the reconstruction?
August 14, 2013
steve jobs: an ayur-reverie about a lost mother, the pancreas, and the maternalization of technology
First published on www.elephantjournal.com, 10/12/2011 __________ How is it meaningful that Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer? The poetry of ayurveda might say: Steve Jobs lost […]