I can’t believe how good I feel and how bad I felt. It leaves me wondering; How do emotions bend? What changes the composition of feelings? Why do things change so quickly? Do they change quickly? Or do I…
I got a card in the mail today. It’s the one year anniversary of my new relationship with my dry cleaner, the one by my newish home I moved to around the same time we met. You might not think…
8 minute read time.. In a final edition of my upcoming book, my editor actively encouraged me to add a section explaining “about Buddhism.” I resisted this for more than a year because I like universal language, repel labels and…
I know from direct experience, I do not learn from experience itself nearly as much as I learn from reflecting on experience. This year I’ll be reflecting with this: What have I done in the past year that I feel…
We all know religion is not exactly universal. Easter is Easter. Wasaka day is still Wasaka day. Christmas is still Christmas. People end family connections and destroy important relationships all the time over the differences that get so much attention. But…
Next to my place is a market filled with overpriced things like almond milk. And hummus. And Wine. It’s the kind of place you go in a hurry when you run out at the last moment. I shop here almost…