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Why Did the Eclipse Make Me Cry?

The 2017 Kentucky eclipse made me want to see another. When I heard it was coming across northern New England, it seemed so easy to access. I gathered some friends.

When you enter totality, you feel it, not just in your body but in your being. The temperature drops and your skin reacts. In Kentucky, the birds and animals went silent and the bugs buzz rose up in a sudden orchestra creating a spectacle for the ears. It was notable. The world went black. I remember awe. Then it was over, and I wasn’t ready for it to end.

This time, in reference to being able to see it up north, most comments in my social media feed were negative. “Who would come up north to see it,” they opined. “You’ll just see clouds,” they harped.

Why was everyone being so negative, I wondered. A quick search online revealed that historically on April 8^th there is an 80% chance of cloud cover in that area of New Hampshire.

Luckily, the ten-day predicted sunny skies for Monday. I didn’t want to get my hopes up. Had the 10-day predicted rain, I would have said there was […]

Meditative Gongs

Last week some of the PE staff went to a meditative gong concert at the Conduit Center in East Hartford. I’d been wanting to try it for months, but all day, I kind of felt like it was going to be lame and that I really didn’t want to meditate for 90-minutes. How was the girl whose record meditation is 45-seconds going to lie there for 5,400-seconds? That’s a lot more seconds.

Then I walked into the building, went up the stairs and immediately felt good. I saw the familiar faces of our staff and was hit with the feeling of warmth and comfort. Granted it was 30-degrees outside and they had the heat cranking, but they had the heat cranking and it warmed the cockles of my heart. They had me at heat.

The room had an option for chairs or lying down with blankets. I went for the floor and colorful […]