by Admin | Jul 4, 2010 | ashram, Children, creativity, Darjeeling, fiction, Leela's Gift, meditation, yoga
My new book, a novel, “Leela’s Gift” has been released. In fact it can be viewed at http://lulu.com/spotlight/JLevine1. It will soon be (early August) available at amazon.com and many online venues where book are sold as well as in book stores...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2010 | fiction, Leela's Gift
© Janet Levine 2010 Coming soon to online and brick book stores. Seven years ago, one July, on a clear but cold winter’s day on a beach in Nature’s Valley, South Africa, one of my sons asked me. “What is your next book?” (“Know Your...
by Admin | May 30, 2010 | Children, fiction, Leela's Gift, meditation
Below you will find a photo of peonies that bloomed in my garden this morning. For some reason this is a once in three years occurrence so I greet each bloom with excitement. They are among the most beautiful peonies I have seen, and the scent is intoxicating. I have...
by Admin | Apr 18, 2010 | Children, creativity, high school, human rights, meditation, mind structure, young adults
On April 7, PBS broadcast a two-hour documentary “Buddha” a journey through the life and times of the historical Buddha who lived in north eastern Indian two thousand five hundred years ago. The documentary is also an introduction to his teachings. One of...
by Admin | Mar 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
I saw a robin today as I walked across campus, a harbinger of spring to come. In a flower bed in front of my home office window there are a host of white and green snowdrops emerging from under those leaves that were not swept away last fall. My heart leaps at the...