simple days with bonnie rae

I’ve been feeling a bit stuck. Low energy and melancholy. I love autumn with all of my heart but the change in seasons makes me want to cuddle up with a book and fall asleep every. single. day. As much as I want to slow down, I don’t want to sleep my life away. In an…

“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” Hindu Proverb Speeding up in order to slow down. It sounds like an oxymoron “chasing slow,” but it’s what I find myself doing. Speeding up and complicating my life in order to slow…

I was born and raised in a Hindu ashram. Some of you may have seen a Hollywood ashram in the movie Eat, Pray, Love. In the book and movie the ashram was a place of sacred reflection and meditation.  A place of hermitage and wisdom. An ashram is all of these things but it is…

Our physical space impacts us so much. If I am in a cluttered, untidy room I can’t concentrate. I either need to tidy or move to a new space to be productive or to relax. Cluttered technology does this to us as well. Most of us have smart phones that are meant to make our…