Going through my every day life there are times when I get caught up in this cycle and forget about the gifts that I have. No matter what our origins are it is normal to sometimes not recognize the beautiful things that we have in our life. 
Over 35 years ago my parents and many [...]

While I was in India this past month there was great deal of fog and unusually cold weather in Delhi and Amritsar. The wintry weather caused a lot of headaches for me and the others with whom I was traveling. This may have happened to you too: You go to the airport planning to travel [...]

A father’s eyes are the first mirror that a woman knows.
The eyes of her beloved are the second.
Every other mirror in a woman’s life is for her to pre-measure herself and assess what she will look like in those sets of eyes. Correcting something. Hiding something. Enhancing something. Because the mirror on the wall is [...]

This weekend I watched a Hindi movie called "Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na" (Whether you know… or not). I don’t normally watch many Bollywood movies, but a long time ago my wife wanted to watch one so I added it to my Netflix video rental queue. 
While watching the movie it felt a bit [...]

See more pictures from this morning of "Spring Snow"

The weather these days is so mixed up that it’s hard to know what to expect. This past weekend we had warm summer type weather in the mid 70’s. My kids were splashing in water outside and jumping on the trampoline with only shorts on. It was [...]

My 34th Birthday is this Tuesday the 24th and it has gotten me thinking about the term "Sikh Youth". I have always considered myself a "Youth", but as I have gotten older I often ask myself and friends "When are we no longer the ‘Sikh Youth’ anymore?", afterall, I’m married and have two kids/youth of [...]

I don’t know about you, but it seems that more and more these days our society, our jobs and environment keep us pushing ourselves more and more. We are now trained as a society that if you are tired, then drink coffee/tea and keep going. Forget about listening to your body saying it is tired [...]

My wife Arjan Kaur sent an email out a few days ago to some friends and family and thought it was inspirational so wanted to share with you. (I edited it down a bit to take out some personal stuff)
Happy 2009 to all of you!  I hope you all had a fantastic 2008 [...]

Today was a different day than the norm here in Espanola, New Mexico. We woke up to beautiful white covered ground and snow falling from the sky. It’s always so magical when the snow comes down and covers everything. The kids jumped out of bed and wanted to go out and play in the winter [...]

Over the past years my practice of reciting the nitnem banis has been sporadic. It’s like any spiritual practice, it takes commitment and discipline to continue day in and day out. Sometimes I am on solid, and sometimes not. My challenge is to be stable all the time. In the past I had my [...]

This morning as I was editing the latest audio files (from Diwali) that Ek Ong Kaar Kaur sent me to post up on SikhNet for the "Sounds from Hazur Sahib Audio Journal" section it occurred to me how different this was for me. I’m a very visual person and am used to taking pictures and [...]