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02 August, 2020

[love is more thicker than forget] - e. e. cummings

Goes down a bit like dark chocolate mousse melting on your tongue...

06 June, 2019

Seeing yourself with unconditional love

A meditation on self-love: stepping away from the default critical lens and into an essence of love.

06 June, 2019

When things feel heavy

A letter of love and support I wrote to myself near the end of Mom's life, to be sent to myself one month after her death.

05 January, 2019

Down from the mountains

Feeling the dust still on my skin.

05 January, 2019

Gratitude

On what is here, now, in my life.

20 November, 2018

Trekking and the White Mule

Observations, thoughts, feelings while on a trek along the Annapurna circuit.

14 November, 2018

The Earth and Me

A poem I wrote after laying in the grass on a hill in a jungle near a village in the Himalayan foothills.

12 November, 2018

The first few days

Life in the ashram; hard to believe that four days ago I was home in SF.

02 November, 2018

Making yourself at home

Some thoughts in the days leading up to leaving for 6+ months of travel.

25 October, 2018

Gentle, gentle, gentle...

A poem I wrote on a beach in Big Sur, in late-March of 2018.