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This recipe has graced the table at many AYA events. It is super simple and we use fresh ingredients as much as possible. Hope you like it as much as we do:
1 lb cheese tortellinis, cooked and cooled
2 cups artichoke hearts
1 tblsp lemon juice
1 cup pitted olives, chopped, sliced or whole
1/2 cup parsley
5-6 roma tomatoes [...]

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Best Tie Dye Tshirts

My daughter started her own tie dye tshirt business on Etsy.com.They are the best tie-dye shirts ever, not kidding. She does each one by hand with professional dye with the original method of actually tying the shirt.
The web address is
DyeAndGoToHeaven.etsy.com
Here’s some examples, but you can see them all at her website:

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Development of Awareness

Here is a quote from “Yoga and Kriya” by Swami Satyananda on the yogic meaning of awareness:
When you do asanas and pranayama, as well as meditational techniques … the emphasis should be on awareness. This awareness implies that your attention is directed to a specific function or activity. It means that your attention is on [...]

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Pen Challenge

The other day I was looking out the window at my fence and I had the nonsequitous idea that I bet I could go the rest of my life and never buy another writing pen or pencil. The reason being there must be billions of them floating around out there and if I tried I [...]

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Health Care

Recently I discovered Roger Ebert’s blog. I think most people know who he is, but in case you don’t, he used to have a TV show where he and his partner Siskel rated movies. Roger Ebert got cancer and got to where he couldn’t talk. Now he types. His blog is really good.
On August 20 [...]

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One of my favorite TV shows when I was little was Flipper. It was about a wild dolphin who befriended this family and did amazing dolphin stunts for them while enforcing the law, rescuing people at sea and taking care of Sandy and Bud, the two main characters in the show.

Here’s Flipper, actually Flipper was [...]

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Yesterday we went to see the movie Food, Inc. It’s not exactly a fun light-hearted movie, but on the other hand, if you eat food and live in America you should try to see this movie as soon as possible.

The movie exposes the industrialized food system in America and the effect it has on the [...]

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Ramana Maharshi Video

Here is a nice and very rare video of Ramana Maharshi:

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Leftover Trip Photos

So now I have posted all the major events from our trip to Germany and Paris. Here are a few photos that are interesting but didn’t make it into the other posts.

When we were shopping in Frankfurt we stopped to rest on one of the little brick hills around the trees. Right next to us [...]

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Le Musée du Louvre

The Louvre. Is. Really. Spectacular.
Altogether the Louvre holds about 35,000 works of art, and has more than 645,000 square feet of exhibition space. We were there almost 4 hours, maybe saw 1,000 works of art, or less, and while we saw a lot we feel like we barely touched the surface. I think it is [...]

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