by Anastasia on March 5, 2009
I F YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY checked out our astrologer in residence Sheilaa Hite’s March horoscopes, I suggest you have a look. She reminds us that March is a “magical time of year,” during which we witness the lion transforming into a lamb. “We are participants,” she explains, “in one of nature’s oldest and most creative cycle dances—the end of winter and the beginning of spring.” Such a time of transformation (and violent indecision, really—as winter struggles to make up his mind on when to leave town) resonates with me, especially this year. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on January 7, 2009
Perhaps we'll see a little less of this in 2009.
I T WOULD SEEM as though T and I have spent our lives pursuing vastly different paths. We have long disagreed on how to cultivate a meaningful life (and what even constitutes such a meaningful life to begin with). Since I was able to understand what “values” were, I gathered that our values rarely fell into the same category. While I was devising elaborate career plans in 10th grade to travel the world as a doctor and crusader for the rights of women and children, T was considering throwing a pole-dancing “private party” in the local bowling alley as a way to bypass town anti-strip club laws and to rake in a fortune. I’m not trying to imply that I was Mother Teresa to T’s Larry Flynt—neither plan really panned out the way we envisioned. At least the one thing our projects did have in common was their idealism. We both were and have always been day-dreamers. [click to continue…]
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