From small-bed zinnia warriors to folks tending hundreds of acres, most of my yoga students garden or farm in some way. Before every class, there is inevitable chatter about when the tomatoes are going into the ground, how someone hurt their back feeding the livestock, or does anyone know someone who fixes lawn mowers. […]
Like all the best stories, the Egyptian myth of Anubis begins in a tangle of love and deceit. Anubis was born to Osiris and Nephthys. Now Nephthys is the wife of Set, who just happens to be Osiris’s brother and rival. Disguised as her sister Isis, Nephthys conceives Anubis with Osiris in secret and Anubis […]
The world seems to be spinning just a little too fast these days. My nervous system, an ancient, beautiful, but easily overwhelmed thing, does its best to keep up. It scans for danger, catalogs uncertainty, and tightens my muscles so that I am ready to react. Like, all the time. It’s exhausting. But what if, […]
Once a year, on the first Saturday in May, time slows down in Kentucky to a rhythmic, pounding heartbeat. All eyes turn to a single patch of earth at Churchill Downs in Louisville, where tradition and thunder converge in a two-minute horse race known as the Kentucky Derby. Now you might be surprised to learn […]
Kentucky is a state shaped literally and culturally by its waterways. From the wide sweep of the Ohio River along its northern border to the almost 100,000 miles of creeks and streams that braid through hollows and valleys, water is a defining force here. From the earliest Shawnee tribes to the frontiersmen, humans have never […]
After the ice and snow finally melted off our driveway this February after the terrible winter storm, we noticed a new crack in the asphalt. Today, I noticed the most adorable dandelion poking its little lion mane up through that crack. In a world often dominated by roses and lilies, the dandelion is easily overlooked. […]
