Guru Purnima

This morning my husband said, "It's almost Guru Purnima," and a passage from Shiva's Arms flashed through my mind:
Alice...muttered into the embodiment of the slippery culture she had married into. She had expected Ram to explain something intricate to her about this god, something that would make sense of the contradictions.
Here's what my husband told me:The July full moon is observed as the day sacred to the memory of the great sage Vyasa, who wrote the Mahabharata. This day also marks...