I receive many requests for friendship here on tribe. I love my tribe commuinty. But I am very selective about adding new friends. Often when I add a new friend, that's the last time I hear from them. That makes me sad and I wonder why that person wanted to be in my friend in the first place.

Most of my friends on Tribe I know in real life or have met at some point. I do have tribe mates across the country and around the world. I hope to meet them one day. Regardless of where my friends are, they make an effort to stop by and say hello from time to time.

I am not one to add friends at random. A lot of people here on tribe hide behind a veil. They have many photos, but not a single photo to say who they are. I will not add you as a friend if I do not know what you look like.

Above all, plain and simple there must be common ground between us and a thread of interest that sews our friendship together.

If I decline your request for friendship, I hope you understand and kindly respect my decision.

Namaste`

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

- Henry Miller

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.
He who is contented with contentment is always contented.

- Lao Tzu

This is a true story, the film 'Lorna' was made in 1964 the year I was born and Russ Meyers introduced to the world that vixen Lorna Maitland. I was lying in the hospital with mom for two days without a name. Dad wanted something different and while he was driving on Market st. he saw the name 'Lorna' as a featured film at one of those Market street cinemas, thus I became Lorna. He told me this story for years and I thought oh great, a Market St movie house... I was named after someone in porn.

If you have not seen the film Lorna, but are familiar with Faster pussy cat kill, kill, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Super Vixens you'll know what to expect with Lorna. This film however has some uncanny parallels to my own life. I giggle... it's all good and I'm not named after a porn star after all.

O, muse! Yes, Miss I'm addressing you!
...you who rise like a steam from a hot bath
of chemical corrosives, freshly towelled and
powdered, still smelling of citrus scented
shower gel...well, you are just the
daintiest damn thing I ever seen!

Please grace this uncomely bundle of words
with your signature wit and precision, form,
proportion, ect...that those who peruse me
will not pull puzzled faces, nor be struck
with boredom.

Please flavor this weak tea, sweeten it with
your grace and favor. I'd really appreciate it.

Much thanks in advance, Yr humble Servant.

Pranyama - breath/life

Asana - your pose/yoga asana

Yama - no harm, no infliction of discomfort or pain in yoga asana

Niyama - observation to all things related to mind and body in yoga asana

Pratyahara - sense withdrawal, moving inward, the inward practice begins.

Dhyana - meditation

Dharana - super concentration, higher level of awareness toward the divine state of being.

Samadhi - you have reached a super conscious state, the natural state of being.

OM Namah Shivaya Gurave" I offer myself to the light which is the true teacher within and without.

"Saccidananda Murtaye" Which Assumes the forms of Reality, Consciousness and Supreme Bliss.

"Nisprapancays Shantaya" Which is never absent and is full of peace.

"Niralambaya Tejase" Which exists without support and vital essence of illumination.

Aum Shanti