Celebrate Food Banks!

During the pandemic, our local food bank, The Food Depot, helped many people survive, literally. They rock. Today they run a drive-through food distribution at the Santa Fe warehouse, offer mobile distributions in outlying communities like Mora, Pecos, Abiquiu, and El Rito, have food mobile stops in other villages, collaborate with Pueblo partners and dozens…

Read More

Healthy Aging Menopause Ayurveda

Healthy aging menopause Ayurveda, these travel together, as Kate O’Donnell and I note on her recent podcast. You can listen to it here. Ayurveda balances conditions. If we’re depleted, it’s there for rejuvenation. If we’re toxed, it’s there for cleaning. Sometimes we’re both, and this can be dealt with, too.  The four ashramas, stages of life…

Read More

Grounding in the Present Moment

Ojas, the mind, the feet How to navigate these times? Talking with Kate O’Donnell on her podcast this week – it airs next Wednesday – I bravely spoke about protecting one’s mind stream, a k a consciousness. Yesterday I imagined calling this post Resting in Fresh Mind Stream, kind mind stream. By today my mind…

Read More

Easy Healing Drinks Sustainable International Sleeper

I wrote a book Easy Healing Drinks from the Wisdom of Ayurveda with photographer Renee Lynn seven years ago. We wanted to create something beautiful and useful in the field of Ayurveda. We succeeded in this, yet stumbled in other ways. In past posts, I’ve written about other people’s creative strengths. It’s easier for me to…

Read More