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The Caged Bird
I look out the glass doors of my second floor room, and on the neighbor’s porch hangs a cage. It’s black metal, maybe a foot in diameter and two feet…
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Back in Bali
After just one week into the new year, I flew from Vancouver to New York and drove down to the New Jersey shore to visit my family, none of whom…
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It’s a New Year
The clock says 12:09am and it’s officially a new year. At midnight, people were screaming and banging pots. I went to the window and hung out of it, listening, looking,…
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Becoming More of Yourself
We have all been peppered with quotes the likes of, “Be you, everyone else is taken,” and “There’s no one in the world exactly like you,” and so on. And,…
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Being Human, Dark Night of the Soul, Energy, Happiness With Nothing, Health & Wellness, Meditation, Self-Care
Haunted
Are you haunted by anything? When you are engaged in a task, like cooking dinner, do you find suddenly your thoughts have wandered to that subject again? When you are…
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Yoga While in Seclusion
A little over two years ago, began a process that I suppose I will call an awakening, or death, of myself that forced me to go into a sort of…
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Meditation / Visualization for Awakening
If you find yourself wanting a practice that can help shift your perspective and relationship with this reality, or to help you work through things happening in your life, then…
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Inspiration Drought
When I am not feeling inspired creatively, or uninspired in general, it’s generally because something has gone out of balance and pulled me off center. For example, over the last…
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May Your Wishes Be Few
May your wishes be few, because your deepest desire has already come true. I think that desiring of new experiences is part of expansion as human beings here in this…
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Snow
It’s November 7 and it’s snowing out. Snow that is actually sticking. There’s got to be at least an inch already. It seems too early for snow in the Pacific…