christmas trees

With Christmas comes a perennial rush to decorate a tree in your home. As a Christmas tree neophyte in the early days of my marriage, it became rapidly apparent that I was not to be trusted with such a purchase on my own.

“As the legend goes, the primordial deities Parvati, mother of the natural world, and her husband Shiva, who possessed the power of destruction and creation, brought sacred balance to the Universe through their union.

There are two pandemics currently afflicting us. COVID-19, of course, and the "infodemic" – otherwise known as a tsunami of information and misinformation.