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  Saturday, February 25, 2023   Aho’Rajanaka,   I hope this finds you well.   NEW SPRING SESSIONS BEGINNING:   THURSDAY, MARCH 2 ND  SIX MURUGA MYTHS SATURDAY, MARCH 4 TH  TEMPLE MYTHS. Tuition has been lowered because your time is always valuable. Please read on and then the details. Word this morning was snow in…LA?  Did that happen?  And once again this past week we learned that truth depends on your news source, not on what’s true.  Granted, it’s been a long time since Yudhisthira’s chariot touched the ground for just a little fibbing but the receipts are in.  It just mustn’t become a post-fact world if we’re to stand a chance though I bet you’ve noticed even the facts seem harder to believe.  The good news is that there things  just as important  that don’t ask you to believe anything, much less “get the point,” come to  the bottom line, or uncover the  real  truth. Wait. What?   If I had a rupee for every time I hear someone use the word “myth” to mean false, bogus, mistaken, or

Saturday, February 18, 2023   Aho’Rajanaka,   I hope this finds you well.  According to Fahrenheit’s thermometer it went from 60 to 17 degrees in the last 48 hours here in Bristol.  If you don’t like the weather ‘round here just wait a minute.  Upon a time I longed for milder climes, then talked myself into “the seasons,” but now I just hold fast for the madness and try to accept the inevitable with a decent appearance of unconcern knowing full well that we  are  concerned.  Yoga isn’t about denying the hard truths but trying to engage them skillfully.  Well, as skillfully as we can.  Would that help?  I try to stay in the question to make a way forward both inside and out.  This morning I wrote a bit more about staying with the fray if you care to read.  I must caution you that an important example here involves our politics.  But how could it not?  We are political with or without our chosen participations. https://contraiety.blogspot.com/2023/02/making-peace-in-all-of-it.html   If t