Yoga means โto yokeโ, to join, to bridge. โOnly connectโ, wrote novelist E M Forester when I read his famous novel Howardโs End in my first undergraduate English class in 1969. My professor said: Only connect. For me, now โจmore than fifty years later, โจyogaโs connections expand into a rejuvenation โจof the body and the mind. Yoga means holding out for more. Not giving up or giving in. It means giving up. Giving in. Yoga means sensual pleasure โจand the erotic spring. It means contemplative disembodied reflection. Yoga means somewhere between these spacesโจof opposition -โจan ease in whatever emerges.
Category: single mothering
Pandemic Journal 3/8/2020 โ Thunderstruck! (a letter to my daughter on her birthday)
My often privileged life is long enough to have had many ups and downs over almost seventy years including navigating the unevenly distributed challenges of this global pandemic. My daughter is the highlight of my life well-lived. I am grateful for the gifts of adoption, for the lifetime of love that ties us together.



