Events for
August 14 - 16th, 2026
Quote of the Week
"As a man casting off worn-out garments takes other new ones, so the dweller in the body casting off worn-out bodies takes others that are new."
Bhagavad-Gita 2.22
Commentary: Having explained in the previous five verses the immortal and unified nature of Spirit—our true identity—Krishna now uses a metaphor to explain the relationship between our Spirit identity and our apparent bodily identity (ego.) Please remember that there is only one identity—Spirit, which appears as the infinite variety of individual spirits that comprises the Creation. With this in mind, we can understand that as easy as we change clothes to suit a particular situation or buy new clothes to replace worn-out ones, just so our eternal-Spirit-Self can change from one ego-self to another, or creates new ones as appropriate. Once we remember that Spirit is playing all character roles in creation, just as we play all the characters roles in our dream creations, we can better understand the unified wholeness of both our Spirit and ego identities. Again, Krishna is using the metaphor to help convince us of our true, divine, Spirit identity..
Yogi Edmond
Movie Night
Movie: The Birdcage
Date: Friday, August 14th 2026
Time: 7:30pm (optional: bring a dish or snack)
Optional: Yoga and the Movie ... Yoga starts at 5:30pm
The Birdcage Youtube Trailer
Staring: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane. Dianne Wiest
Directed and Produced by: Mike Nicholes
Screenplay by: Elaine May, based on La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Running time: 117 min.
Release Date: March 1996
Remakes don’t get much better than Mike Nichols’s The Birdcage, which embraced drag shows long before they became the height of cool, and more unsettlingly, another casualty of the rising tide of fascism. The movie’s entire pivot point is the marriage in everything but name between Armand (the much-missed Robin Williams) and Albert (Nathan Lane), the former of whom is the owner of the drag club where the latter is star performer Starina. Their relationship is tested when their son Val (Dan Futterman) announces his marriage to Barbara (Calista Flockhart, in one of her first roles), the daughter of a Republican politician, and Armand and Albert attempt to pass as respectable straights. The result is a satire so subversive that audiences willingly laughed at many of their most sacred cows, including marriage, politics, sexism, homophobia, and the traditional family itself.
Review by Andrea Thompson
Hope to see you there! ☺
Group Meditation