https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal daily 0.75 2026-01-23 https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/flowers-for-the-monks monthly 0.5 2026-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/eb648554-c49d-49b9-855c-29350ade5fc4/IMG_2290.jpg The Underground Stream - Flowers for the Monks - Make it stand out Flowers for the monks. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/evangeline monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/ae7f69e1-4988-42e8-a70c-1a20930bfee2/IMG_5169.jpg The Underground Stream - Evangeline - Make it stand out My dog Sarah after Paws moved away and she became a mature girl. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/whats-falling-away monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/c701959f-8836-48d2-8ca9-bc89c0355c8d/IMG_5119.jpg The Underground Stream - What’s Falling away? - Make it stand out Our maple tree as seen and photographed from my meditation chair. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/unmoored monthly 0.5 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/d06974ba-33a3-4933-af88-171c559dfc72/IMG_8681.jpg The Underground Stream - Unmoored - Make it stand out Interior of a small chapel on the Island of Sifnos, Greece https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/little-lessons monthly 0.5 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/4e984e1b-2f5e-45cf-9e41-abc3fcd86bbe/IMG_0372.JPG The Underground Stream - “Little” Lessons - Make it stand out Little treasures run in the family. These treasures belong to my younger daughter, Sophia. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/the-clarity-of-interconnectivity monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/af2f7358-78ce-471c-bb2a-eeeecfad8db1/IMG_2302.jpg The Underground Stream - Clarity, inter-connectivity - Make it stand out Date Palm, California https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/noticing-the-unimaginable monthly 0.5 2025-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/0a95e786-f02e-43ce-8b2a-3d6af0cbc76f/IMG_2010.jpg The Underground Stream - Noticing the Unimaginable - Make it stand out Weeping Camellias https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/our-spiritual-teachers monthly 0.5 2025-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/74c83bdc-8b58-4d87-b9d0-b8813d5ccccc/IMG_1873.jpg The Underground Stream - Our Spiritual Teachers - Make it stand out Batty sitting on a beautiful volume of Zorba The Greek, gifted to me by my friend David, and Freedom and Death, both great novels by Nikos Kazantzakis. Batty channels Zorba’s wisdom quite effortlessly. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/lessons-from-smyrna-the-tales-we-tell-ourselves monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/9c8df6cc-6dc5-4312-b6c2-f27ac12072ae/IMG_4948.jpg.jpeg The Underground Stream - Lessons from the 1922 Smyrna Catastrophe: The Tales We Tell Ourselves - Make it stand out An old house in Mitiline on the Island of Lesvos, Greece, reminiscent of the grandeur that was once Smyrna. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/the-stories-of-our-lives monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/510d7eae-bd18-47c8-9dde-8374c1f1b5a6/IMG_0575.jpg The Underground Stream - The Stories of Our Lives - Make it stand out Some of my journals, and Batty https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/taking-inventory-of-the-miraculous monthly 0.5 2024-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/5131f258-b335-4244-b0fd-76cf545ea690/IMG_8610.jpg The Underground Stream - Taking Inventory of the Miraculous - Make it stand out Church of The Seven Martyrs, Kastro, Sifnos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/d51bc98c-fe99-4b1f-b314-c32951a23127/IMG_8689.jpg The Underground Stream - Taking Inventory of the Miraculous - Make it stand out Just adore me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/f86b4d45-23ae-4308-b53a-d46368096705/IMG_8668.jpg The Underground Stream - Taking Inventory of the Miraculous - Make it stand out Platys Gialos, Sifnos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/3e9f5533-129f-4515-b8a5-bcd91c20838a/IMG_8680.jpg The Underground Stream - Taking Inventory of the Miraculous - Make it stand out Interior of the sanctuary, Platys Gialos, Sifnos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/5df143c6-2497-4552-b182-381f03392097/IMG_8681.jpg The Underground Stream - Taking Inventory of the Miraculous - Make it stand out Sanctuary in Platys Gialos, Sifnos https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/get-off-the-fast-ferry-1 monthly 0.5 2023-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/043f2a0b-6104-484a-8730-835be270bdb9/IMG_5515.jpg The Underground Stream - Get off the Fast Ferry - Make it stand out Amorgos, Greece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/a72270e6-1f88-4568-ad2d-7e3c448e1d19/IMG_5274.jpg The Underground Stream - Get off the Fast Ferry - Make it stand out Koufonisia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/d46b9a80-4617-4208-b4df-9ddf64a4a2d7/IMG_5308.jpg The Underground Stream - Get off the Fast Ferry - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/819ce871-883b-4a95-a6af-d92615fe5b8f/IMG_5418.jpg The Underground Stream - Get off the Fast Ferry - Make it stand out Chora, Amorgos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1d29c9af-8074-4778-ae28-60e03f93c1c0/IMG_5405.jpg The Underground Stream - Get off the Fast Ferry - Make it stand out Jazzmin Cafe, Amorgos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/52076c8d-5f7b-4935-8921-6d42b994e389/IMG_5341.jpg The Underground Stream - Get off the Fast Ferry - Make it stand out Halleluia! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/a6e086e9-16c7-4d3f-b9a9-9b91b79eb662/IMG_5579.jpg The Underground Stream - Get off the Fast Ferry - Make it stand out The sun comes up over the Aegean Sea https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/paryas-vision monthly 0.5 2023-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/7f0403e3-edfb-4e95-b8f5-f89b1065623f/IMG_5681.jpg The Underground Stream - Parya’s Vision - Make it stand out Payra’s drawing and gift to me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/be7fe6ec-5c85-4c91-9daa-9d0ab2f5d95b/IMG_5189.jpg The Underground Stream - Parya’s Vision - Make it stand out A selfie with Parya’s younger sister https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/the-things-we-carry monthly 0.5 2023-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/aacec990-ff3e-4aab-9c62-e28af02df75e/IMG_3635.jpg The Underground Stream - The Things We Carry - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/a-return-to-the-sacred monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/93e968cd-4e1c-4a98-bc0a-9b03f42943a3/IMG_1199.jpg The Underground Stream - A Return to the Sacred - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/gratitude-is-an-art monthly 0.5 2022-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1661971573679-7SEHOCVL5KVVEDKJVHJC/IMG_0401.jpg The Underground Stream - GRATITUDE is an Art - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/lets-stay-together monthly 0.5 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1652202146557-7K0W6VAYOW5KJWOQZWMI/Japan+-++Macaque+Monkeys++-+2007+DSC_0242_edited-1-3-2.jpg The Underground Stream - Let’s Stay Together - Make it stand out Family of Macaque Monkeys in Japan. Photo by Suzanne Taylor Dater. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/compassionate-hearts-along-the-way monthly 0.5 2022-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1645943083873-C78O0TXQM9XA99Z9E2UL/IMG_0227.jpg The Underground Stream - Compassionate Hearts Along the Way - Make it stand out Bronze statue of Saint Kateri, Lily of the Mohawks, by artist Estella Loretto https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/car-trouble monthly 0.5 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1642623981071-TDCJXPQHHC68IK0L6NA6/IMG_9963.jpg The Underground Stream - Car Trouble - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/sitting-in-the-dark monthly 0.5 2021-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1638508454150-F4LBSN1R88A2LM84C976/IMG_9732.jpg The Underground Stream - Sitting in the Dark - Make it stand out Winston Sitting in the Dark https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/7fmrlqtr26dt04xqx38oj4a3iba679 monthly 0.5 2021-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1638209569295-71MUVIHBHZQYB60YUKRS/Japan+2007+-+Macaque+Monkeys+DSC_0353_edited-1.jpg The Underground Stream - presence - Make it stand out photo by Suzanne Taylor Dater https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/journal/1upjads7ne3d2zsxxokwvw52gd6bkq monthly 0.5 2021-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1635979939139-AN8PB2QT22G230OW9RLW/IMG_20170916_152905.jpg The Underground Stream - The journey begins… - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2021-11-04 https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/about-me daily 0.75 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/2959b2be-7e95-40df-9948-e63e8b4f506f/IMG_0287.jpg About Me - Make it stand out Evangelistria Church in Tinos, Greece, the pilgrimage site that my grandmother dreamed of visiting during her lifetime. https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/what-is-sprititual-direction daily 0.75 2025-02-15 https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/home daily 1.0 2023-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1635984955041-T7VKBEY96NM18NC0TUYG/mountains+-+1.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1635983646548-9J3SHX47HT037XSQT8TS/undeground+-+1.jpeg Home - The UndergrounD StreaM I’ve always loved to write and keep journals. These meditations will focus on various themes that capture my attention, usually resulting from the inevitable intersection between personal experience and the world events that we are all witnessing and trying to negotiate with integrity. I hope that you resonate with some of my reflections, and may some sort of alchemy happen wherein we are mutually enriched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1635982754845-GU6628NFSIJC6F6TCY3X/1000020.jpg Home - The need for Spiritual Direction While the world pulls our attention toward the glitter of our external selves and endeavors, spiritual direction calls us into the vast inner space within. In telling the stories of our lives in the presence of a spiritual companion called to listen with understanding and compassion, we enter into the territory of self-discovery, authenticity, and illumination. As we begin to transform ourselves, we contribute to a larger, global transformation, and what we do for ourselves ripples outward to the whole of creation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6182ed2a398ad11e28ead58b/1636038077139-4ILPZG6ZB9RFNMN4W5RR/DSC_0855.jpg Home https://www.alexandrasubramanian.com/new-page daily 0.75 2021-12-03