A belated birthday greeting, I feel I was the one who received a gift in this beautiful essay. Your writing is so very present and transparent of heart, I feel like I am listening to you as we share the meal on the beach in the moonlight. I am sad with you in your losses and join with you in celebrating the moments of joy, sometimes that is all we can do. You live with an open joy that is lovely to witness.
You are the kind of friend I need more of. We are given a life that requires constant exploration as we have more freedom whether that is political freedom, social freedom, financial freedom or any of the other countless freedoms which can be available. I read the part about you deciding to continue your vacation amidst a "storm" and commend you as so many would think, "OH OUR TRIP IS RUINED!" yet. you are growing even more as you connect in a way many Americans will never. Please bring that energy back and share. We need you as one of out Leaders Of Life.
Ramya Vivekanandan: First, I saw from "Love Note," you are left-handed. Very, very smart, like my own dear Dad and my Daughter.
Your Hindu origins, your Indian Heritage.
How beautiful, how beautiful.
Leading lights in my own philosophical reflections are the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, with its philosophy of Unity under Yajnavalkya, and the Chandogya Upanishads, with the meditations of Uddalaka, and the Bhagavad-Gita, along with expositions of the Adi-Shankara by Paul Deussen (father of Western Sanskritology). I am a Roman Catholic, in the tradition of the ecumenical Dominicans and Jesuits who love Hinduism and Buddhism.
I LOVE your work and your expressive writing.
I LOVE your compassion and love for the wonderful, good people of Jamaica.
I am sending the donation request to my Lovely Wife, Nancy, who is the CFO and Comptroller (ahem!) in my family! LOL! But she loves the people of Jamaica.
And the coast of Jamaica -- what a breathtaking, wonderful, beautiful spot in the world so worthily the dwelling of dear, dear, good persons.
A belated birthday greeting, I feel I was the one who received a gift in this beautiful essay. Your writing is so very present and transparent of heart, I feel like I am listening to you as we share the meal on the beach in the moonlight. I am sad with you in your losses and join with you in celebrating the moments of joy, sometimes that is all we can do. You live with an open joy that is lovely to witness.
You are the kind of friend I need more of. We are given a life that requires constant exploration as we have more freedom whether that is political freedom, social freedom, financial freedom or any of the other countless freedoms which can be available. I read the part about you deciding to continue your vacation amidst a "storm" and commend you as so many would think, "OH OUR TRIP IS RUINED!" yet. you are growing even more as you connect in a way many Americans will never. Please bring that energy back and share. We need you as one of out Leaders Of Life.
Ramya Vivekanandan: First, I saw from "Love Note," you are left-handed. Very, very smart, like my own dear Dad and my Daughter.
Your Hindu origins, your Indian Heritage.
How beautiful, how beautiful.
Leading lights in my own philosophical reflections are the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, with its philosophy of Unity under Yajnavalkya, and the Chandogya Upanishads, with the meditations of Uddalaka, and the Bhagavad-Gita, along with expositions of the Adi-Shankara by Paul Deussen (father of Western Sanskritology). I am a Roman Catholic, in the tradition of the ecumenical Dominicans and Jesuits who love Hinduism and Buddhism.
I LOVE your work and your expressive writing.
I LOVE your compassion and love for the wonderful, good people of Jamaica.
I am sending the donation request to my Lovely Wife, Nancy, who is the CFO and Comptroller (ahem!) in my family! LOL! But she loves the people of Jamaica.
And the coast of Jamaica -- what a breathtaking, wonderful, beautiful spot in the world so worthily the dwelling of dear, dear, good persons.