Life, Spirituality

I Aspire To Be a “Guest of the Earth”

Teachings from a Sikh memorial

The “Golden Temple” in Amritsar, India. Photo ©Erika Burkhalter

I shifted against the carpeted bench and tugged the red and white pillow up a little higher on my spine. We’d been seated here for an hour and forty-five minutes now, listening to kirtan and watching the translation of the Hindi words from the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, flash…