Dar handed me the small, thin cup of Turkish coffee and said "drink". I don't drink coffee, but she said she can glean my future, near and distant, from the coffee grounds left after I drink it. Fascinated, I drank and gave her the cup ( Read more... )

I looked around, and realized that I could feel energies around me - people, plants, trees, life! Of the 20 people that I ASSURED I would give massages to, none was around. Weird, after being perpetually behind on body work and hounded for it, I suddenly found myself with no familiar face around me to work on ( Read more... )

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I've been "into" massaging for a few years now: I love giving massages, I can tell what hurts or ails you - and I'm often able to DO something about it ( Read more... )

Walgreen’s, Worcester, very late at night ( Read more... )

I knelt down before the casket and looked at the man I knew so well, and said to him “you don’t mind if I don’t cross myself, do you?” because he would have loved to hear that when he was alive, which brought tears for the first time that evening. “You’ve always been kind to me” I told him, my voice eroding “I will miss you ( Read more... )

7:30 PM, NYC: A glowing-eyed Rabbi is turning us into a sweaty, colorfully-clad human Menorah, one candle at a time. We’re still giddily euphoric from the Kundalini session, expectant - in a few hours 2006 will be ushered in with dancing, firefly acrobats atop their long silk ropes, and wonderful, magical people all around ( Read more... )

Fact to know: I’ve been a vegetarian since July of last year ( Read more... )

Saturday, Ogunquit beach, Maine, 2 AMThe sand is impossibly soft and silky, the ocean unruffled save for tiny wavelets that wash ashore. After the busy, happy streets full of tourist families, the sparkly little shops and galleries, the noisy restaurant and the raunchy night club, it’s a blessed stillness, a needed tranquility, a time when we can ( Read more... )

I had to get up and declare this, at 3:30AM ( Read more... )