Why is it so hard to get started again after stopping for a while? The law of inertia is true for blogging, yoga, cleaning house, paying bills, having sex–everything. And the older I get, the harder it gets to get moving. What a surprise. But enough complaining. It’s all just an excuse to explain why [...]

From my Yoga Journal newsletter: If you’d like to practice karma yoga and be of service to the relief effort, you have many choices. Amurt, an international group of yogis and other volunteers, is providing food and stress management. The group may also open its national retreat site in Willow Springs, MO, to hundreds of [...]

Couldn’t find a shot of this online but I saw it on Dateline: NBC last night — a story about how the French Quarter survived Katrina with no flooding and no major damage. The folks that are left there are even in a party mood, putting on their traditional Labor Day barbecue, complete with a [...]

From the New Orleans Times-Picayune: Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially. In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised [...]

A member of the Army reserves reams out our President: Today, you addressed the nation, and admitted that you made some mistakes – that everyone involved in the relief effort made some mistakes. That’s not good enough. Apologies won’t bring back the people who died needlessly. As the highest authority in the land, you can’t [...]