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Rajanaka Newsletter December 14 2024 with Links to the Session Archive for Download

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  Saturday, December 14, 2024   Aho’Rajanaka, I hope this finds you well.  I wanted here to offer the briefest update for upcoming Sessions and our plans for 2025. Today, Saturday December 14 th  will be the last live Zoom Session for 2024.   Our topic is the Lotus Goddesses.  There’s an archive of past sessions and we will continue into 2025, resuming in February.  I’ll send a note with dates.  This has been pretty wonderful work and I think we have some more to do.   I will hopefully produce a few Pilgrimage Diaries podcasts from India.  These will be published on the Rajanaka Substack.  Subscription is free and I will send the link again and again to make it easy.  We’ll be in India until the second week of January.  Home to resume University the day after arrival.  Nothing new.  ‘Cause ‘No rest for the wicked,’ says ol’Second Isaiah.  He musta’ ...

Rajanaka Newsletter February 3, 2024

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  Saturday, February 3, 2024   Aho’ Rajanaka,   I hope this finds you well.  The sun, well at least I think it’s the sun, has peeked through this wintry morning in Bristol.  My first reaction was “what’s that big orange thing in the sky.”  Then I remembered, oh yeah, there  is  a sun just not much ‘round here.  That’s cool, I say.  Short of catastrophe, every day has got its longs and shorts.  I really do want every day to be its blessing, even out here in the cold cloudy nowhere sane people would move to and mostly filled with rednecks wtf am I doing here Great Lakes.  It has its charms.  Living with yourself will be the hardest and the most important thing you ever do.  Lord knows, others will appreciate your efforts.  Well, maybe.   Good to keep it real, I say.  I am no optimist by nature because I find looking for the bright side is too much wis...

January 25th, 2024 UPDATE: Rajanaka Winter Sessions, Summer Camp, and a Free Session This Saturday

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  Thursday, January 25, 2024   Aho’Rajanaka,   I hope this finds you well.   We’re going to need each other this year, maybe more than ever.  Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse or weirder, it will and you’ll feel a lot better in good company.  It will be good to be in the conversation with you.   India Pilgrimage this year was pretty darn wonderful this year, gotta’ say.  Re-entry has been interesting.  (N.B., not every use of the word “interesting” is a good thing, much like the word “fragrant.”  Except when it isn’t.  You take my point?)  There are good stories yet to be told.  And there are a few more Pilgrimage Diaries yet to come.  I hope you’ve enjoyed these---all on the Rajanaka Substack and all free.   I thought it prudent to take another week before we begin Winter Semester.   It may some are actually looking forward to these Sessions, ...