uncertainty
October 7, 2019
Wavering is an expected part of a new venture that isn’t yet established. On the rare occasion, seeds of ideas come to us with great certainty and strength ...
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July 17, 2019
Watching surfers follow the arc of a wave reminds me of how we experience both energetic and life shifts. Following a new inspiration or direction requires that ...
read morethe quest for more, bigger, faster
May 13, 2019
I recently received an email whose subject line both drew me in and gave me pause at the same time. I wouldn’t have flinched at it a few years ago. But after you move outside of the culture in which you are raised, you gain an ability to see it in a more discriminating and […]
read morewaiting
March 18, 2019
To be in a hurry in Mexico is to miss the point. I am writing this not from theory but from practice, as I sit here waiting for a taxi at the botanic gardens just outside of town. You see, Mexico operates on a much different sense of time than its northern neighbor. In the […]
read moreboth and
March 13, 2019
My life here in San Miguel could not be more different from my life in Los Angeles. LA is a massive city, full of creative energy around every corner, and full of people. The energy of the city is coupled with a sense of expansiveness and spaciousness in the ocean that borders it. Nature along […]
read morethe universal politics of fear
February 21, 2019
I recently visited Hong Kong for the first time. I went there to teach at a university, and before going, I read a CNN article on some of the restrictions Hong Kong is starting to face as China slowly exerts more and more control. According to the article, the University of California school system recently […]
read morea peaceful evolution
January 8, 2019
Living in Mexico has taught me to allow for the unfolding of life more deeply than ever before. Being in a culture that values process as much as, or more than product, and simultaneously being removed from the constant American need to rush through life at full speed has allowed me to have a more […]
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