Posted on May 13, 2010 4 Comments
I have long since learned that if you want to cook with rare and exotic spices, and find some fresh produce from far and away places, the best way to do this is to shop at one of the many ethnic grocers around town. I blogged about this long ago when I was in search […]
Posted on April 27, 2010 1 Comment
This Easter I participated in a four-day yoga workshop at Hamsa Yoga Studio with American Iyengar teacher, Jack Davis (who is also opening a new studio in Frederiksberg called Yogacentralen in August). During the course, on Easter Sunday, Jack read the following quote from Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the first Indian yogis to bring yoga to the west, also known for […]
Posted on April 21, 2010 1 Comment
Finally…here are some of my first pix of the season, an annual tradition.
Posted on April 10, 2010 2 Comments
My father-in-law Finn Jensen enjoying a Carlsberg Yesterday a former American Expat, Lori Saldivar Schneider, a good friend and owner of The Cupcake Bar in Austin posted this article on Facebook. It was too irresistable not to blog about! The story that USA Today picked up from the Associated Press was about how Carlsberg Brewery employees revolted against a change in the company’s […]
Posted on April 9, 2010 1 Comment
The new generation in Danish design on show in Milan Danish craft and design has undergone a wave of renewal and revival in recent years. 14 of Denmark’s most talented craftspeople who are part of the new generation in Danish design participate in DANISH CRAFTS’ exhibition MINDCRAFT10. It is the third time that DANISH CRAFTS […]
Posted on April 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
March 25 2010 Copenhagen’s statue of The Little Mermaid, known from H.C. Andersen’s fairytale, began her journey to Shanghai on March 25. Once there she is to be part of EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. This means that around 70 million people will experience the iconic symbol of the Danish capital. She has been beheaded twice […]
Posted on April 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
Prayer of Saint Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon: where there is doubt, faith ; where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light where there is sadness, joy O divine Master, grant that I may not so much […]
Posted on March 29, 2010 Leave a Comment
My father would have been 66 today. In his honor, I decided to write a prayer he wrote that really captures so much. I never really thought of my father as a spiritual or religious man, but after reading these words, I realize that he had a lot of depth that I can now appreciate more than ever. […]
Posted on March 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
If you are feeling hard and cold, let this aggression melt in the sunlight of your meditation. Let peace work on you and enable you to gather your scattered mind into the mindfulness of Calm Abiding, and waken in you the awareness and insight of Clear Seeing. And you will find all your negativity disarmed, […]