Cathy writes: "Paul and our boys and I have just returned from a wonderful week up at Kripalu … It is the tradition … to do three days of continuous chanting, round the clock, leading up to the turning of the year … carried out in a huge meditation hall, beautifully lit with thousands of blue lights and candles everywhere, dozens of musicians and chanters at the front leading hundreds of people through a repetitious chant of ‘Om Namah Shivaya’" …