Japanese Matcha Tea Ceremony Chanoyu By Nathaniel Pantalone

  Matcha ceremony (Chanoyu) is very complicated. Students of Chanoyu go to University to learn and study every aspect of it! Books that are written about it cannot hold all of its complexities within. Nonetheless, in this Spotlight, we will endeavor to shed a faint light on one of the most beautiful and complicated ceremonies […]

Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Park Part 1 by Nathaniel Pantalone

Part one of photo diary of Hluhluwe Park in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). A small monkey who was keen on eating some of my breakfast. An interesting bird. Smoke from the controlled burn of the grassland. A mad elephant. (We got to close to the babies) All photos are copyright of their owner, Nathaniel Pantalone   […]

The Power of One

Aleph – A Meaning of Oneness Another name for our Creator is Ein Sof, literally the “Without End”. Ein Sof is related to the word, Ayin, which begins with an Aleph and means “nothing”. Aryeh Kaplan explains that one connotation of the term Ein Sof is “the Ultimate Nothingness”. Whatever creation springs from this Ultimate […]

Om Mani Padme Hum

What can a Tree Teach Us?   I want to share with you an experience I had a almost 30 years ago when I was 21. I was taking a course from a company called Landmark Education. They do transformational and self development work. They promise you to get out of the course what you […]

Richie Parker, NASCAR racing team engineer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRi4zCiclRY “There are certain advantages to having a disability,” he said. “I’m used to having to do things 10 times, 20 times, 30 times. That’s an advantage in the workplace. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve worked with who are ready to quit after something doesn’t work the first time.”   “I can’t […]

Mission Mahi

There’s no way to miss Jimmy Woods’ food truck when it passes you on the road. It’s painted in a swirl of bright pastels and screams GET DELICIOUS FISH TACOS HERE! But Jimmy cooks up so much more than succulent and perfectly season Mahi on the griddle inside. There’s a mission. A ministry. A message. […]