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Esteemed Reader: April 2012 March 28, 2012
Jason Stern parallels a child phenomenon Kim John Payne calls “soul fever” to the current state of humanity.
Esteemed Reader: March 2012 February 27, 2012
Jason Stern meditates on the most frequently referenced image in the Indian spiritual tradition of Vedanta: a pure, white, lotus flower growing out of a muddy swamp
Esteemed Reader: November 2011 October 26, 2011
Publisher Jason Stern reflects on the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Esteemed Reader: October 2011 September 28, 2011
Publisher Jason Stern reflects on the death of Troy Davis.
Esteemed Reader: September 2011 August 26, 2011
Publisher Jason Stern reflects on the native interests of children.
Esteemed Reader: August 2011 July 27, 2011
Publisher Jason Stern reflects on his idea of local economy.
Esteemed Reader: July 2011 June 28, 2011
Publisher Jason Stern’s conflict with the yesses and nos of life.
Esteemed Reader: June 2011 May 26, 2011
From Eskimos to Islamic Sufism, friendship has a special place in many cultures—Jason Stern talks about the place friendship has within everyday life.
Esteemed Reader: April 2011 March 28, 2011
Chronogram’s Jason Stern talks about the challenges of trying to feed one’s soul with right nourishment, doing the same for your children, and finding balance between technology and the beauty and simplicity of nature.
Esteemed Reader: March 2011 February 24, 2011
Revolution is in the air. Jason Stern discusses the importance of a revolution of consciousness, and our ideas of what is important.
Esteemed Reader: February 2011 January 27, 2011
Publisher Jason Stern discusses the benefits of forgetting self pity, and embracing our daily opportunity to refine our lives, and ourselves, and our interactions.
Esteemed Reader: January 2011 December 30, 2010
A confluence of celestial events leads us to look beyond this world for meaning.
Esteemed Reader: December 2010 November 29, 2010
“When you die, it’s not just your things that you can’t take with you,” the shaman said to the assembled circle. “It’s also your inner stuff.”
Esteemed Reader: November 2010 October 26, 2010
Our guest columnist is John Godolphin Bennett, from a talk he gave in 1972.
Dylana Accolla Passes September 30, 2010
Dylana Accolla, the acupuncturist and healer, who has lived and treated patients in the Hudson Valley since moving here in 2001, died Sunday, September 26, at her home in High Falls. She was 47.
Esteemed Reader September 2010 August 27, 2010
Against the backdrop of the lives of stars we are called upon to serve with every deed.
The Sacred Science of the Ancients June 24, 2010
Jason Stern talks with John Anthony West, known internationally as a maverick Egyptologist.
Esteemed Reader May 25, 2010
Pondering the self-fulfilling prophecy of the Gulf oil spill catastrophe.
Esteemed Reader: May 2010 April 26, 2010
Sitting on the cushion I watched as waves of thought and emotion and physical discomfort rose and fell. Some of them swamping my little psychic boat, while others I was able to navigate, turning into the swell at the right moment, rising to the top, and sailing down the other side. At times the pain of sitting (particularly with a recently sprained ankle), or just the urge to move, became overwhelming and I shifted, or slumped, or stretched my neck. At other times, I would keep my attention pinned to my diaphragm as breath rose and fell.
Esteemed Reader: April 2010 March 24, 2010
At a meeting of parents for my five-year-old’s kindergarten class, I asked his teacher what she saw about the specific group of children. “There are nine children and seven of them are boys,” she said. “In their play they are ever wielding swords and guns, and playing at piracy and battle. I am still trying to understand how to help them channel what is clearly something natural and real.”
Esteemed Reader: March 2010 February 24, 2010
If we have the eyes to see, ears to hear, voice and hands to respond, the stuff of our life will be a tasty repast on the tongues of angels.
Esteemed Reader November 24, 2009
Chronogram publisher Jason Stern travels to Hawai’i to be in the moment.
Esteemed Reader: July 2009 June 25, 2009
Chronogram publisher Jason Stern prompts us to shop locally.
Esteemed Reader May 26, 2009
Chronogram publisher, Jason Stern, reminds us we all have the opportunity to be heard.
Esteemed Reader April 27, 2009
Jason Stern realizes we can learn from the less obvious of teachers in everyday ordinary situations.
Esteemed Reader: August 2004 April 15, 2009
Jason Stern on how war can facilitate knowledge transmission.
Chronogram Localist Message #3 March 12, 2009
There is a lot of bad news on the airwaves. We are steeped in it. But bad news for whom? Most of it spells the demise of dinosaur business entities that have put profits before people, the environment, and the human spirit. The good news is that here in the Hudson Valley we have a vibrant, connected community of people and businesses that work and live together, with aims that transcend the personal pursuit of getting and having.
Esteemed Reader: Jason Stern rediscovers America March 04, 2009
Jason Stern discusses the differences between original and modern America.
shift key March 02, 2009
Esteemed Reader January 30, 2009
Chronogram publisher Jason Stern considers a more peaceful and positive disposition.
Hope of Consciousness is Strength December 23, 2008
Esteemed Reader December 22, 2008
Publisher Jason Stern muses about the the goal of interconnectedness in the human community.
Esteemed Reader: November 2008 October 27, 2008
Autumn presents us with opportunities to reflect upon the goodies within and without.
Esteemed Reader: October 2008 September 25, 2008
We are waking up from the American Dream—but what do we do next?
Esteemed Reader July 28, 2008
Jason Stern reflects upon his son’s experience learning how to explore his senses in nature.
Esteemed Reader June 25, 2008
Jason Stern tests his theory that glaciers are alive on vacation with his family in the Alps.
Esteemed Reader March 26, 2008
Recently, I became the primary caretaker of my two boys—ages 1 and 3. Though I knew full-time parenting is a demanding job, I now realize that it is more difficult and engaging than most of what I encountered at my day job.
Esteemed Reader February 25, 2008
Tonight I am watching as the earth passes between the sun and the moon.
Esteemed Reader January 25, 2008
The notion of embracing suffering might sound perverse, but if it follows the prior step of acceptance, it’s sublime.
Esteemed Reader December 21, 2007
Though I have sought insight in many ways, the persistent pull of family and children has produced the most effective arena for fulfilling my love of meaning.
Esteemed Reader: December November 26, 2007
Publisher Jason Stern discusses miracles, large and small.
Esteemed Reader: November October 25, 2007
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
—Walt Whitman
Esteemed Reader August 24, 2007
One of Woody Allen’s most oft-repeated quotes is, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Which begs the question: Even if I am showing up bodily, how much of me is truly showing up?
Esteemed Reader July 26, 2007
Each of us individually is but a part of a being on a scale so vast as to be incomprehensible.
Esteemed Reader May 31, 2007
“To have a meaningful life,” he began, “is to be generous with your life. You are given life in order to give it away. Your life is not for you.”
Esteemed Reader April 28, 2007
I stopped his swing and we looked in the direction of the sound. There, silhouetted against the darkening evening sky, was the outline of the long-beaked bird on a high tree branch. The bird’s knock-knock-knock resounded in the calm of dusk.
Esteemed Reader January 31, 2007
Our yoga-practicing publisher regales with tales of mat-shredding Hatha sessions.
Zen and the Art of Raisin Scraping December 31, 2006
Chronogram publisher Jason Stern learned some valuable lessons from a difficult boss.
Esteemed Reader December 28, 2006
As a teenager I worked at a health food store. The pay was so meager that even my employee discount didn’t count for much toward the expensive items in the store.