Past are the afternoons scribbling in journals on wooden docks floating between home and away. Silenced are the nagging questions of my 20’s as to my exact being, purpose, and fate. Retreated has the wave…
Browsing Category transitions & home
i’d rather walk…
This is the third time this week that I’ve sat down to write, and then decided. I’d just rather walk. Every spiritual guide and clairvoyant I’ve ever encountered has told me this: you live too…
where it’s gone
I miss my writing too. But in the way that I miss and love my mom. Feeling grounded by the fact that she’s there. Yet not needing to live in a bedroom in her house….
re-defining home
(The following question was posed to me by the editor of TravelBlogs.com) What does home mean to you after traveling for so long? When I first left the country, I was an angry girl; ashamed…
citizen of the bardo
I think it was this photo. … that made me and my girlfriend change our plans, mid-sentence from… “Let’s just go. We’ve been planning this trip to Kashmir for months!” to… Fresh protests erupt in…
a creative life
For about six months I’ve been feeling something shifting inside of me. I can only compare the sensation to being made of sand; where every move I make shifts a million grains into a new…
sorting out the new space
***** “The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of…
strange math
I’m in Boulder, Colorado. I’ve been deferring that declaration; hesitant only because not even I know what that means. There are certainly known variables – like that I’m broke, that I love my job and…
just being
Call it a block, but I just haven’t any will to write. I’ve returned to the blinking cursor no less then twelve times today and begun fifteen different sentences that I deleted before I came…
midnight monsoon
pouring. drenching. pounding. drowning. rain. When I was in Pune, they asked me, “Did it rain in the North, in Mumbai, when you were there?” When I was in Goa, they asked me, “Did it…