On duty the morning of 9/11/2001, Jonathan searched for lost friends after the tower collapses and then volunteered for thirty days of 12 hour shifts to recover their remains. 343 Firefighters died September 11th 2001 and the death toll is still climbing as a result of breathing in toxic particles. My lungs and sinuses suffered major damage at the trade towers site and everything from hearing loss to depression set in, which caused me to balloon to over 300 pounds. At a fun

If you spend any amount of time around the sacred chant community in Atlanta, you are bound to encounter the word “kirtan” in reference to large and very fun musical events. The term kirtan comes from Sanskrit, the ancient, holy language of India, and can be translated using the English words “celebrating”, “praising” and “repeating”. A kirtan event encapsulates all of these ideas, it is like a big (and often very loud) party in honor of various gods and goddesses, in which t