Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Family, Customers and Casual Supporters, I am very very grateful and excited to announce that after nearly a year of working on it, Govinda's Catering will be finally appearing as a guest vendor at... (photo Carrboro Farmers' Market) The Carrboro Farmers' Market!!! The Carrboro Market is the Hubba Hubba of all the local Farmers' Markets. I guess that is because it is one of the oldest and most well-attended of the area markets. Last year my g

For several years I used to work with a great direct sales (aka network marketing) company. At the time they had a wide selection of super high-quality nutritional supplements, as well as some very unique detox products. My mentor in the company used to frequently compare our company to others that focused on one or two products. Those products were amazing (like mangosteen juice or healthy chocolates), and yet, because the product line of each company was so limited, their i

Today is the big day. My band Samadhi will be playing at a non-yoga studio venue, the Honeysuckle Tea House. This is kind of a first for us. It's exciting. It's scary. I worry about the things that could go wrong, just because that is what I am used to doing. A couple of nights ago I had promotion for this event to do, some catering estimates to write up, this newsletter to start, loads of dishes in the sink, and a new course that I wanted to start studying... So naturally, i

Good morning and welcome to a couple of you out there who are reading this newsletter for the first time. About 2 or 3 weeks ago I started noticing that the leaves on the tulip poplars were beginning to yellow. I dared not vocalize this observation because I simply could not admit that fall was coming. This week, when the sweet gums and dogwoods have joined the poplars, and leaves are beginning to show up on lawns, instead of in trees, I must acknowledge Nature and the passag