For the last day/hours or so, we are actually not still in retreat, exactly, but beginning to engage again in the more “ordinary living” aspects (whatever we haven’t been doing and must return to, such as dr
shared keyboards at schools (brrr), salad bar tongs, etc. Best guesses are that the virus can live on surfaces for 2-48 hours, maybe even longer, depending on the surface, temperature, and humidity.
This week, nationwide beauty products chain Sally Beauty disclosed that, for the second time in a year, it was investigating reports that hackers had broken into its networks and stolen customer credit card data. That investigation is ongoing, but I recently had an opportunity to interview a for...
Joseph Parker, Pasadena, CA,Evolutionary Biologist: “Uncovering the origins of symbiosis in rove beetles and the evolution of complex organismal traits.” Ebony G. Patterson, Chicago, IL, & Kingston, Jamaica,Multimedia Artist: “Creating visually dazzling works that explore themes of visibility, be...
I actually feel my vagus nerve responding as soon as I am doing an advanced meditation practice (dzogchen, a Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana meditation technique) that I have been doing many times during and sometimes for hours daily since 1999. I mostly feel this response in the vicinity of my he...
When I #meditate, especially during a #retreat phase in which I was #contemplating lives of beings in the “God Realm,” it occured to me repeatedly that we live in opulence amid squalor, all over the planet. Beauty smack dab in the middle of ugliness, every day. #Yin and #yang. Wed...
Ebony G. Patterson, Chicago, IL, & Kingston, Jamaica,Multimedia Artist: “Creating visually dazzling works that explore themes of visibility, beauty, race, class, violence, mourning, and regeneration.” Shamel Pitts, Brooklyn, NY,Dancer & Choreographer: “Pioneering experimental performance works insp...