Ask Parvati: Getting Unstuck and Finding Your Passion

Parvati Devi: Ask Parvati 1: Getting Unstuck and Finding Your Pa...:

"Getting Unstuck and Finding Your Passion, February 27, 2011 - Thank you very much for your submissions to this first in a series of ‘Ask Parvati' blogs."

Parvati has launched a weekly blog entry in which you can ask her for guidance on various life challenges. Sort of an I AM version of Ann Landers or Dear Abby. Your name and e-mail address will not be published.

Throughout the week, please send your questions to ask@parvatidevi.com. Submissions close on Thursday. Anything sent after that will be considered for the next week. Parvati will pick at random one question to answer and will post the answer on Sunday so everyone can enjoy and benefit.

Parvati's North Pole Journey: Epilogue

Parvati Devi: North Pole Journey: Epilogue

"A week after my return: Friday, October 7, 2010 - COMING TO OUR SENSES - It has been about a week since I have been back from the North Pole. Though I’ve slept well these past days, I feel very tired and strangely, I think I feel something like culture shock. My heart is heavy having seen even more clearly and palpably the effect of human ignorance. Yet there is new life being born in me beneath the undeniable process of grieving I am experiencing. Perhaps that baby Inuit I felt wiggling in my soul while in the Arctic is shape-shifting into a wiser, more compassionate self..."

Which came first? Parvati's cocoon or Lady Gaga's egg. A side-by side comparison:

Lady Gaga born out of an egg? Parvati's been there, done that!

At the Grammy Awards, Lady Gaga got quite a bit of attention with her schtick of appearing to be born (or hatched) out of a reptilian egg. But North Pole trekker and honorary citizen of Patria Parvati actually did that first - in a more positive way, being born as Natamba from a cosmic spaceship rather than a lizard egg - with her original Yoga in the Nightclub opening act in 2007.



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Parvati shares a dream of the Goddess that she had the night after returning home from the North Pole.

Parvati's North Pole Journey: fun times at Inuksuk High

Parvati Devi: North Pole Journey - Day Seven

"Day Seven: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - Performance at Inuksuk High School IQALUIT - We fly back to Toronto today, but first, we have one last stop. I am scheduled to perform and Satish will present his fabric at Iqaluit's Inuksuk High School at 11 am. It is already 8 am. We must check out of the hotel and head up the hill for my sound check, costume change and walk through the show in a space I have not yet seen ..."

And so the North Pole adventure ends. But stay tuned for further re-blogs as Parvati and friends integrate their new-found love for the Inuit and deeper love for Mother Earth.

Congratulations t0 the Green Bay Packers, SUPER BOWL XLV CHAMPIONS! In Patria, like most of the world outside North America, "football" is usually understood to mean soccer. If there were a smash-mouth contact sport of Patrienish football, it would likely have more in common with Australian Rules football than the North American game.

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Remembering Reagan on the Gipper's 100th birthday

Ronald Reagan would have been 100 years old today. Born in Tampico, IL on Feb. 6, 1911. A native of the Land of Lincoln, but moved to California as a young man to begin his acting career. Say what you want about the Gipper, but at the end of his presidency Mr. Reagan left the United States in better shape than he found it when elected in 1980. He was exactly what America needed after the failed Carter administration. From his first day in office, positive change had come to America, and even the Ayatollah in Iran knew it. (Read Reagan's first Inaugural Address). Indeed it was no coincidence that the hostages in Iran were released some time between "I, Ronald Reagan do solemnly swear..." and "...so help me God".

While Mr. Reagan may not be a "great" president in the same league as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and FDR, he is certainly right up there with the second tier of US chiefs, honorably mentioned (Iran-Contra notwithstanding) along with other strong presidents such as James Monroe, James Polk, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. He certainly did a better job than some of the other recent occupants of the White House, such as one whose last name is a synonym for "small tree" or "shrub". Even if Mr. Reagan may have been suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's during his eight years in office, at least he didn't screw around with a White House intern and allegedly use a cigar for a dildo. Quickly recovering from an assassination attempt also scores brownie points even among gun control advocating liberals. Arguably Mr. Reagan's greatest achievement - although it didn't actually happen until a year or so after he left office - was winding down the Cold War, challenging "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" and ratcheting up US military spending so much that the Soviet Union virtually went bankrupt trying to keep up.

The Reagan legacy is fondly remembered in Patria. The 1980s were a journey from darkness to light, from the stagnation, failed policies and failed hopes of the 41st Congress (1978-1982; Patria's version of the Carter administration) to the full self-sufficiency, stability and prosperity that flourished in Patria in the 43rd Congress at the end of the Reagan administration. And in between were the years of real growth and new frontiers of the 42nd Congress (1982-1986). After Mr. Reagan's passing in June 2004, Congress declared a public day of mourning and remembrance in his honor and Patria Post issued a memorial stamp. To be fair, Patria also did the same after the death of Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 2000.

Parvati's North Pole Journey: back to the metropolis formerly known as Frobisher Bay

Parvati Devi: North Pole Journey, Day Six

"Day Six: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - BACK TO IQALUIT - Satish, Sunanda, Rishi and I greet this, our last day in Resolute Bay, before sunrise. Out the breakfast room window, the wind blows powdered snow across the rocky ground and out over the frozen Arctic Ocean where yesterday we walked on icebergs. Today the sky is cloudy, still darkened by the remains of the night. Our bags are packed, awaiting us at the front door of the inn so that we may catch an early flight to Iqaluit today, en route back to Toronto..."

Satish, Rishi, Parvati and Sunanda at Resolute Bay airport.

"All I know for sure is, like a child who marks their growth with lines on the inside of a doorjamb, the growth of my Self is marked on the doorjamb of my life by this trip to the North Pole" - Parvati.