Sipping on soy lattes and making coffee art each morning. Watching the sun rise over the Japanese Alps as I brush my teeth before dawn. Discovering new family, the humbling practice of learning something new, finding magic, again and again, in the snow that falls, in the beauty around me. I arrived to Myoko at…
Shifts & Gifts
I am 12 stories high sitting in the Sun Room of my parent’s downtown condo. Hot San Diego air is moving through open doors and windows and the glass walls in the room are giving an incredible view of the city, the harbor, the sky. My parent’s sold my childhood home two years ago and my nature…
Onward
Loved Ones, I write this to you from Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, where I have a ten hour lay over on my way to LAX. After nearly eight months in South East Asia – two months with two of my best girlfriends and half a year alone – I’m closing a life-changing chapter…
Portraits of Perfection
Lovers – Perfectionism has been showing all of it’s faces. This blog itself is a case in point. I’ve been drafting this to you for weeks now, months , waiting, writing, re-writing, editing, getting lost in the details of trying to figure out what to say, how to say it, fumbling with prioritizing most important…
Becoming
Loved One, As I write this I sit wrapped up in a blanket, watching the rain fall from my bungalow hut. I’m in the grassy north eastern lands of Cambodia, adventuring around picturesque, vibrant green hills. Lush jungle blended with pine tree forests, red clay roads and rolling clouds. It is beautiful. My trekking adventure…
Unfolding
Below is an account of my first 48 hours in Cambodia, spent in Phnom Penh, the country’s capital, as well as an update on what I’m doing now and how I’m serendipitously getting involved! Big Love. – – – I’d spent the first day here recovering from a red-eye flight where I slept in Malaysia’s…
Home Is Where The Heart Is
As I write this, I am a sitting in an open patio, in a space that provides the perfect balance between protecting and exposing me to the rain fall outside. I am in Ubud, Bali – a spiritual vortex and capital of the world – sitting at Taco Casa, awaiting an 8-layered wet burrito that…
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
Usually when I’m notified to approve a blog comment it’s an inspiring note from a loved one – uplifting, supportive, sweet. So when I opened my e-mail, was asked to approve a recent comment, and was met with hate mail / online bullying / an asshole, I was confused. Did someone really go out of…
Waves
Below is an excerpt from my journal, March 5, 2015, 9:14PM. “Sitting outside of our room. The Thai owner, who we call Mr. Miyagi, is slowly walking around his land. Hands behind his back, long, silver streaked hair. “Forget self” floats to the surface of my tears but the salt dissolves away the wisdom and…
“It’s an experiment!”
Ask and you shall receive. Ask and you shall receive. Ask and you shall receive. Koh Phangan – an island of manifestation. A hub of mermaids, goddesses, magic and power. I am so grateful for the shift that the water, the islands, my time in southern Thailand has brought. Grateful for the strength, centering and…
Saw-waa-dee
“Let the adjustment period sink in and work out.” – the last line in one of my first journal entries abroad Greetings from thousands of miles away! Saw-waa-dee means “Hello” in Thai :) You haven’t heard from me mostly because I haven’t been able to find many words. Getting off the plane and smelling a…
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The expectations for birthdays, or anything for that matter, is silly. We build it up to be this perfect day, centered around, “What do I want to do today?!” and when the expansiveness of possibilities unravels, sometimes it comes with an overwhelm that isn’t always met with calmness. I’d love to say it was all…
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