My writing class is fun. One week Ganesh, the next Shiva Nataraja, yesterday Kali. I love that the teacher tells us stories of each, recounting the mythology in her own way, showing us that each deity is just an aspect of ourselves. Even though I already know that from having read The Aeneid and other Western Civilization blockbusters, and heard it umpteenth times in yoga classes, it's still fun to be reminded.

Interestingly enough, I was at a yoga workshop all weekend in which one entire afternoon was devoted to Kali -- her iconography, her adornments, what she represents. One of the memorable things the teacher said was that Kali is the “cosmic soup of creative power.” She’s dark and she’s scary. She is the embodiment of all that is born in the primal, fertile darkness of thought. She is uncertainty, but uncertainty as opportunity. This really hit home.

One way to look at uncertainty is to concentrate on, and fear, the unknown. Another way to look at uncertainty is to view it as infinite possibility. If what you have is limitless potential, what is there to be afraid of? This made me feel so much better about the work I've been doing and about where it might lead. Like Kali, I have to continue to rage with creative abandon, regardless of whether or not I get paid. I need to do what I need to do. This, ultimately, is my dharma.