by Sharani | Oct 22, 2010 | Ashrita Furman, Guinness World Record, world's largest seesaw
On August 27, 2010 (what would have been the 79th birthday of the late spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy) Ashrita Furman set a Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Seesaw in the Jamaica Queens, New York neighborhood where his students from around the world...
by Sharani | Sep 24, 2010 | Ocean Monk film, surfing
With the first day of Fall just around the corner and the last weekend of Summer forecast to be beautiful, I was drawn to the beach and the coast to soak in the last official rays of Summer. First stop was Scarborough State Beach on the southern coast of Rhode Island....
by Sharani | Sep 11, 2010 | 9/11 Anniversary, hope, poems, Sri Chinmoy
How can it be already 9 years? How can it be only one short year until a decade has passed? Although the years have flown by, I am still mute in the memory of this terrible, terrible tragedy for the U.S. and indeed for the entire world. On this 9th anniversary of 9/11...
by Sharani | Aug 15, 2010 | 3100 Mile Race, Backwards Running, Surasa Mairer
Surasa Mairer, a 51 year old ultra runner from Austria, runs circles around the competition. Backwards and forwards she forges new territory for women runners and shows women and men alike new horizons of possibility. She runs backwards and forwards literally. She set...
by Sharani | Aug 8, 2010 | cats, half century humor, humor, humour, turning 50
What are the chances that when I am finding my hands full just trying to fan myself silly during the latest hot flash, am way less productive and more tired, or am trying to cope with the latest thing I forgot — like how I left my mobile phone at work Friday and...
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