Kalliyam

Saturday, September 30, 2023   Aho’ Rajanaka,   I hope this finds you well.  It’s hard to believe that tomorrow is October.  I mean, keeping track of time from inside this mortal coil may be a feature not a quirk of being human but it never strikes me as easy as it is obvious.  Days are getting shorter, gotta hold the light.  I’ve been working on the podcasts for our move to the Substack platform, Zoom Sessions on Thursday Evening---one more this week on the poetry of Ma Kālī---Saturday Evenings, Sunday Mahabharata both of those as usual at 5pm Eastern .  We’re actually coming close to the end of these Fall Six Week Short Courses and I’ve got  more and new ones  in the works.  I will write again this week to introduce the new Sessions coming in October through November. Truth is, and I mean it, the work we do helps keep me together.   Lokasamgraha , as Krsna calls it.  “Holding the light.”  As I see it, the world isn’t getting easier to deal with: it literally burns and floods, our dem

Saturday, September 16, 2023   Aho’Rajanaka,   I hope this finds you well.    It’s happening, the autumn is here in Bristol.    It would seem trivial to talk about the weather but that’s no longer the case.    ‘Round here it’s been a lush, wet warm season.    We’ve never seen the forest so thick or the ponds still so full.    But who knows what’s  next .    I think these feelings don’t just apply to the weather and that’s why it would be a good idea to angle for perspective before we’ve got too many edges and inclines.   One of the most helpful ways to make the ordinary ultimate---and vice-versa---is to invest in your vision, make a proposal, dare we say conjure a plan, or as Appa would say with veracious inflection,  “Shall we make a program?”    In Old School language, this would mean  both  that we need a plan  and  we’d better be ready to adapt, modify, rearrange, or entirely abandon in favor of the next “program” unhesitatingly, forthwith,  right now .    We’re being invited to lo