Kalliyam

  Monday, January 2, 2023   Aho’Rajanaka,   I hope this finds you well.  We were lucky to have a few days with our children visiting during the holidays---so I took a moment to lay low, hope you did too with friends and family, and this newsletter (like a lot of other things) is (a bit) late. We also had an at-home celebration of Susan’s birthday and that was Sumthin’ Wonderful.  Suz loves prezzies.  And she gave me some really swell dog treats for Christmas (not even kidding) and also insisted I share them with Sadie.  I promised I would dole out them (to both us)  little by little, again and again ---you know,  śanaih śanaih, purnar punah , as we like to say in Sanskrit.  (Sadie helps with the Sanskrit too, btw.) So all of us got some wondrous love, the kind that reminds us why  sometimes  there really is never too much,  just more .  We also got the (usual) (necessary) sober reminder t...

As we approach two years since our house fire we are still rebuilding and renovating, albeit at a pace now commensurate with two years of folly. That is another story. But one outcome will (eventually, not yet) a more generous space of bookshelves, bookshelves brilliantly and capable of handling most of the collection that I still house at my UR office. I'm barely at the University---why should I be?---and in the aftermath of covid teaching at home I have brought home hundreds more, almost casually as I have needed them here. When the new hojoki (ten-foot-square room, literally in Japanese though it is a bit longer than this) is complete (maybe by February 14th, the true 2 years since?), I will bring home hundreds of volumes and boxes full of notes, notebooks, about 40+ of work and more than that of collecting. But the truth is, books are largely obsolete. Everyday another takes digital form---using fewer resources, etc. And though my notes are irreplaceable (anyone want dozens o...

  Thursday, December 15, 2022   Aho’ Rajanaka,   “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.”  Well, I sure hope it is for you and yours.     Before I forget, let me put this at the top of the page. The Gayatri Sessions resume this evening at 7pm.   Join us.  Gayatri in the Tantric tradition is the subject and there is plenty to learn.  Every Session is autonomous.  You can just drop in and it works, you’ll have a good time, it’ll be worth your while.  Our Zoom link is the All Thursdays Link:     https://rochester.zoom.us/j/98183733328 And the Dropbox Archive is up to date, so have at it, plenty to hear: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/r58rwnp3ryxgi6a6y8yme/h?dl=0&rlkey=59kbd7hjdrl8n809zv8becmdi     Can we get back to this “it’s the most wonderful time of the year” thing for just a moment?   Well, I really do hope it is for you and yours.  I’ve finished tea...