The beautiful Pomegranate. A gift from Mother Nature to men-of-a-certain-age
I went to see my doctor yesterday. Good news. Very good news, in fact. My PSA reading has gone down from 0.02 to 0.01 and that’s very good. It was hovering so long at 0.02 that my doctor was taking that as my new baseline. So [...]
Srila Prabhupada, my spiritual master, sitting on the lawn of Bhaktivedanta Manor. On the birthday of the spiritual master it is customary for all disciples to write or speak something about him for the other Vaishnavas who assemble on the day. Here is my piece for this year. It is not a philosophical statement, but [...]
One month after my prostate operation I discover that I’m not my body after all.
I’m getting better.
This time last month I was lying in a hospital bed with my left thumb on the trigger of a morphine pump, ready to self-administer the drug when the pain of a seven-inch long, two-inch deep abdominal incision [...]
Not a photo of me, but please read on if you’re a male devotee and over 35…
In all my years as a devotee of Krishna, and that’s thirty-three this summer, I have never really been ill - ever. Well, alright, that’s if you exclude bouts of Delhi-Belly and the Calcutta-Quickstep on my many trips [...]
You’re watching a Hollywood adventure movie. There’s a bomb that’s about to go off and kill everyone. As the all-action hero defeats implausibly high numbers of opponents on his path to the bomb, the camera keeps cutting away to show us the very obvious timer display with large red flashing numbers and – oh gosh [...]
A note to regular readers: Some new readers are visiting this blogsite who have upcoming prostate cancer operations or who have relatives who do. This post is mainly about my operation last week.
I have now returned home after a morphine-induced twilight week at hospital. Intense pain, doctors and nurses, and devotee visitors have floated in [...]
It has been quite a few days since my last writing. My wife was in Canada caring for her sick father and I could not bring myself to burden her with my latest news.
The results from my biopsies were returned and I have prostate cancer. This diagnosis was not entirely unexpected since my Prostate [...]
Japa in the snow: there are many ways for better concentration
Yesterday I awoke around two-thirty in the morning, read for a while, then showered and began my rounds. Around four it began to snow lightly, the wind blowing the fall diagonally. After half an hour it was snowing steadily, big white flakes settling [...]
This morning I thought I would share a few of my realisations from the past two weeks. Often if we don’t write down these precious thoughts, we forget them. If they are the Lord’s grace upon us then we need to remember them, perhaps for the times when we feel we have no grace at [...]
Today I felt a little better although still very weak. I managed to go to the temple and remain there all day. As if right on cue, the invitations started again. The BBC rang up. They were doing a radio programme asking other faiths their understanding of the Ten Commandments. Would I be the Hindu [...]
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