Rose Garden Yoga (with Elizabeth Goodman)

These are not strays.
Their families have been disappeared.

UPDATE: After days of silence, lies, and deliberate obfuscation, George Retes — the 25-year-old disabled Army veteran and U.S. citizen — has finally been released from ICE custody. No charges.

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https://rosegardenyoga.com/2025/07/found-exhortation-278/

Found Exhortation Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice, Community and Family, Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc), Meditation, Photos, Quaker

It looks like spam, but this page may be killed by Meta for alleged trademark violations. They won’t review without giving a bunch of PII, so it may be goodbye. Do visit my blog at rosegardenyoga.com

https://rosegardenyoga.com/2025/02/kuan-yin-calmly-observes-snow-removal/

Kuan Yin Calmly Observes Snow Removal

https://rosegardenyoga.com/2025/01/found-exhortation-at-the-peoples-march-washington-dc/

Found Exhortation (at the People’s March, Washington, DC)

https://rosegardenyoga.com/2025/01/historic-anniversary-and-yogic-discernment/

Historic Anniversary and Yogic Discernment January 6 is yet another day so historic it warrants reflection and impetus to action on every anniversary. (That might be resting, by the way, if you spend much of your temporal, energetic, and emotional resources in the efforts to make change and ward off evil.)

Taking this to heart. It’s a daily, lifelong contemplation, as we witness changing circumstances, self and collective.

2024 was a hard year for millions of people, and the arrival of 2025 will not change that fact. But for millennia, that New Year's tick of the clock has provided a ritual moment to imagine a more life-giving path into the future.

Howard Thurman—mystic, scholar, and civil rights activist—was no romantic about these things. A black man born in Florida in 1899, he knew all about the cruelties we are capable of inflicting on each other—his beloved grandmother had been an enslaved person. But he never let the hard realities of injustice rob him of the hope embodied in what he called “the growing edge" of our lives.

As we watch love, truth and justice being trashed at home and around the globe, it’s easy to become world-weary. But no matter how weary I become, time spent with infants or young children rekindles my spirit. In this treasured photo, my granddaughter Naiya takes me to the “growing edge” of her world by explaining one of its many mysteries. Her eyes are wide with wonder, her hands alive with speech, and her expression says, “Grandpa, I'm going to keep talking until you get it!” (FYI, the topic was little-known facts about turtles.)

I’m following Naiya intently for many reasons: I love her, every child deserves our attention, and kids remind me that the world is full of wonders that jaded eyes will never see. The burdens of adult life are real, but they are not the whole truth. Only by seeing life’s magic and mystery as well as its misery can we create a world that will serve our kids well.

So I'm heading into 2025 with an aspiration to “get it” by looking at life thru the eyes of a child—while using my adult awareness and power to do whatever good I can. Buddhists call it "beginner's mind,” a vital corrective to the cynicism that comes when we allow harsh realities to darken our vision and diminish our energies. It's a way of looking at the world that makes fresh starts possible at home, at work, and in politics.

As we move into the New Year, I’ll be reflecting on the “growing edge” of my life. What is yours and how do you hope to grow into it?

May 2025 be a year in which we find new life in ourselves and bring that life to the world. In that spirit I wish you and yours a creative and engaged New Year!

[My 10 books are at https://tinyurl.com/mt4sbe7t. And please check out “The Growing Edge Podcast” that Carrie Newcomer and I do at https://tinyurl.com/5n83dpna. BTW, Naiya just finished her first semester at college with straight A’s. Time flies!]