Prayer Beads on NPR Today

Woke up this morning to this wonderful story on National Public Radio about a day in the life of a Hindu monk living in New York City. Take a listen to the story, which includes a good five seconds of the monk, 35-year-old Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, chanting while using his mala prayer beads, pictured at [...]

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“Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert

Maybe I should start a blog called “Behind the Curve” because I am always the last one to read the book everyone else is reading. Partly this is because I have to do a lot of work-related reading (latest requirement: Jim Wallis’s “Great Awakening”) and partly because I am a terrible book snob. I mean, [...]

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