What are Mala beads? How do I use them?

What are Mala beads?  Mala beads or Buddhist prayer beads are a string of beads  — 108 is a common number — of uniform size. They have a large role in Buddhist and Hindu meditation practices. We first were introduced to Mala beads by Rory Trollen while on a yoga retreat in Thailand. How do I […]

“Four Seasons” – Vivaldi

Not long after my grandfather passed away, my mother, uncle, and I took my grandmother on a trip to her favorite country, Italy. We began in the South, where we visited the little town my grandmother hails from, moved north to beautiful Florence, and finished our trip in Venice. While traversing the Venetian maze, a […]

My Time at Lehman

http://nickchirls.com/my-time-at-lehman Interesting Quotes: “What I discovered, quite starkly, is that the part of Wall Street that I worked in was simply transferring wealth from the less sophisticated investors, often teachers’ pension funds and factory workers’ retirement accounts, to the more sophisticated investors that call themselves proprietary trading desks and hedge funds. Of course, the traders […]

Took both of us getting sick to make it to Quilotoa’s crater lake. But we made it….