I recently answered the following questions from a Portuguese journalist and figured to recycle the content. The answers are short because the last time I had something published, the editor, having no mercy with the…
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mental experience
Left over Art Project on the Lawns of Tagore’s Visva Bharati University I don’t actually remember how to compose without a keyboard, so now you get my journal short-sentence scribbles. Welcome inside my head… On…
divine chaos
Why India? I find the inquiry funny for the fact that the question is, for others, as obscurely obvious as the answer, for me. But I was asked this question three times this week and,…
Footprints in Peru, Day 5: a healthy humbling
In my defense, I have to point out that it really should have been the responsibility of Javier and Jairo to inquire as to my personal definition of “favorable weather” before asking me to make…
Footprints in Peru Day 1: puncturing peruvian skin & yachcay
Plaza de Armas, Cusco, Peru “Where are you from?” It’s the same first question every shoe shining boy in the Plaza de Armas has been trained to ask. “The heavens,” I reply in Spanish. He…
un-tethered time
You know that sometimes my only clues to an ongoing holiday are the icons that dance around the Yahoo and Google front pages? The funny thing about holidays, which I think is only taken into…
subconscious’ shadow speaks
“Hey! So, listen. You’ve got help me out. I have no idea what to do. I spent all day, and I mean all day, like 12 hours, researching airline tickets, and then I finally, finally,…
to be made and unmade
“I have no desire for one life partner.” “I feel most inspired and alive on my own.” “I don’t believe in marriage (or any other sacrament that needs a government’s stamp of legitimacy).” There are…
tackle & tangle
“No more satisfying work than work with no purpose.” – Rumi To build a sandcastle right in the face of an oncoming tide. To climb a tree that I must eventually come down. To write…