How about checking out this list of global musicians for New Year’s Eve and beyond?

1) BelO is a socially-minded, Haitian-born singer-songwriter powerfully delivering jazz and worldbeat inflected reggae in French and Creole. His tours overseas have brought him to New York, Paris, and 11 African nations, in addition to his numerous performances throughout Haiti. He [...]

What a great time of year to settle in and read, cook, watch good movies and write.  Recently I watched an inspiring film called “The Visitor.”  Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) is a newly widowed professor who discovers an immigrant couple, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), squatting in his Manhattan flat and becomes wrapped [...]

Creating space in our lives to slow down and quiet down is especially needed at this time of year. This morning I went out for a long walk in the snowy winter and really loved the freshness of the air and newly fallen snow. While I walked I practiced noticing everything around me. It was [...]

This is a great time of year to ponder one of the eight limbs of yoga, as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras , known as the second observance, or niyama, which is santosha, or contentment. It is key to all the niyamas and a necessary condition for enlightenment. Contentment clears the way for [...]