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I was introduced to yoga and meditation about 15 years ago. New yoga centers were opening in Istanbul at the time. Yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practices were not as common and well known as they are today. We began yoga in the most basic possible form, in a single room of a modest apartment, the birthplace of Cihangir Yoga, which is today a well-known center. Twice a week, a friend and I would walk to the yoga facility after work.

Yin and Yang. Perhaps the most well-known element of Far Eastern philosophy. In harmony, good, and evil, positive and negative, light and dark coexist. I liken the world to a ball seeking to strike a balance between these opposing forces. Humans and societies are the same way. If you're familiar with esoteric themes, you've probably heard of the seven principles taught by the Greek god Hermes Trimestigus or the Egyptian god Thoth.

Men, Prayer is a essential to the Christian life, but oh how few of us do it with any depth or master it in any capacity. For many, prayer means little more that that thing they do at Mass on Sundays or reciting phrases mechanically. Our prayer life and our life as Christians gets stagnate and stays superficial. Saint Paul challenged us to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17) and has instructed the faithful to “be constant in prayer” (Rom.

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Last night I found myself in a situation many of you have faced: My opponent starts an opener (in this case Brock Stewart) before bringing in POTM Shohei Ohtani and John Donaldson. This was the second straight game I faced an opponent who went to their bullpen early to use Donaldson who has become the subject of much debate in the MLB the Show community. By now just about everyone knows of the two-way player glitch.

This case is outta Kansas City. Looks like these two, a guy named John Wonder and a woman named Ashli Erhardt, had two kids together and were married for a portion of time, but now estranged. Ya know, it’s an interesting intersection to be a fan of true crime and also a male with infertility issues, because you run into cases like this constantly and just wonder, “Why did these people need/get to have biological kids?

One of the things I love to do every day is cheer on my friends. I cheer them on via text, via email, on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, and I call them and cheer for them. And today, I learned a new word to describe that: freudenfreude. Freudenfreude is a German term that refers to the joy one experiences when they see someone else succeed. The term literally translates to "

There’s a new-ish biography on Sonny Rollins that has sort of flown under the radar. The thing is a damn doorstopper of a book that clocks in at under 800 pages, including a number of citations so healthy that the publisher has a link on the book’s website to a Dropbox where you can go look at them for yourself. I just started reading Aidan Levy’s Saxophone Colossus The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins and I assume it’s one of those books I’ll take a bit of time with, not because of the number of pages, but because I really want to savor it.

The more you work with Living Mulch, the less you’ll want those fancy wood chips.  It’s truly the way to go to reduce gardening chores, and it’s fabulous for ground bees and other denizens of the soil. Living Mulch works quite brilliantly because plants are, for the most part, quite extroverted and love being surrounded by other plants, all snuggled up together.  We can imagine what planty conversations they have in their close knit configurations.