Month: August 2008

Three yellow roses

August 27, 2008 | 7 comments

Sent in by a reader… I walked into the grocery store not particularly interested in buying groceries. I wasn’t hungry. The pain of losing my husband of 7 years was still too raw. And this grocery store held so many

Top of Europe

August 26, 2008 | 1 comment

There are not enough superlatives in my vocabulary to describe the spectactular views one is able to take in from the sight-seeing vantage points in Switzerland. Our trip to Jungfraujoch was one of those unforgetable adventures. The bottom picture below

Back home from Switzerland

August 26, 2008 | 12 comments

Wow. This has been a full two weeks with my family, my practice, and learning about another part of the world. As I type this, I’m flying over the Atlantic Ocean thinking about all the spiritual lessons learned, the progress

The miracle in the monastery

August 25, 2008 | 2 comments

While driving through another Swiss village, our tour guide pointed to a monastery on a hill in the distance. She said that her group used to visit that building years ago, but had ceased visiting it. In a moment of