Hidden Rooms
Oh the worlds we never see. Infinitely surprising. Devastatingly never ours. Some of them, impossibly foreign. Further than our physical bodies can get to. But also vaster than the confines of our minds. There is so much safety in staying inside the same world. But with so much unknown loss in it. Unknown because we […]
Five Cupcakes On a Tray
Be yourself. Be you, they say. Live your life however you want. But that is the thing. Who the heck are you? What kind of life do you want to live? The old life is not ever coming back. I checked. A thousand times. This is about the versions of the future you get to […]
The Partial Truth of Virtual Relationships
Every friend and every relative, lives a whole other life inside our minds. There, they occupy worlds that have nothing to do with reality. These worlds are not play pretend, or unreal. They just appear more real to us. They inhabit an intimate interaction with ourselves. We can hear their whispers. We ‘know’ their thoughts. […]
The Loss of Living A Singular Life
Where should I start from? Where does the beginning sit in a new story? Is the beginning at the start of the new experience, or at the end of it. I have been away inside new adventures for the last few weeks. I swam in turquoise waters in Greece. I witnessed a rocket blasting off […]
Living Out Loud At Long Last
When you inject life in your world it bounces off on multiple surfaces at first. Remember if you are still in the Waiting Room and you invited life to come back, it will try to find you in the confined space. Sometimes we step out of the Waiting Room in quick bursts. On our way […]
The 5 Legged Chair of Joy
Happiness is personal. A journey, as unique as the way you look. As rare as a doppelganger, as surprising as a few people in the world that look like you. It is the same with happiness. We have very quirky ways of experiencing happiness. For instance, when I say I love the color of the […]
The Water Shoes
Did you know that when you choose a different life, it feels divergent? Unalike the one you are walking out from. Logically, this should not be a surprise. A different life should feel different. But as I stepped into a new chapter in my life this week I started to feel unfamiliar. Even my body […]
Have I been Faithful To Myself?
I was interviewing Dr. Parker J. Palmer, an extraordinary poet, writer, change maker. And in the middle of the interview, he asked me if I was faithful to my gift. My eyes must have widened quite a bit. My brain repeated. Faithful to my gift? How would that look like? I thought about us in […]
Mother Nature’s Icy Castles
When Mother Nature knocks on your door, you get down on your knees and pray. You pray for your family, your self, your neighbors, the people around you. You lose all safety, in an instant. You lose the ground you have been on. The physical world around you becomes a threat, an enemy and you […]
Three Seconds of Courage
Birds are brave. Not because they fly too high, but because they fly too close. Too close to our homes and us. In the last few days I have had so many birds get close to my windows. They fly, they stay for a few seconds and then they fly away. I realized that this […]