This week Jane Safina will share what she loves about her city Saint Petersburg and her Russian culture. Jane (Zhenya) has performed professionally in Russian Folk Dance. (She also learned tap, hip-hop, break-dance and more.) She…
ahamkara [aham, “I”; kara, “maker”] Self-will, the ego mask, the principle in people which makes them feel separate from others. — Diana Morrison, A Glossary of Sanskrit from The Spiritual Tradition of India The Death of Ivan…
A friend in Haiti asked me to send her the following passage from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and now I want to reread the whole novel again! Later, after getting used to Alyosha, Pyotr Alexandrovich…