Hola from South America! I just spent the night and a leisurely morning at a hostel in Lima and about to head back out to the airport for my flight to Iquitos. Tomorrow I meet with the group I'll be with and we'll take our first dose of Ayahuasca tomorrow night. So soon! The transit …
One week out
Hello, from a chilly morning in Durham, where steam billows from my hot cup of tea and morning traffic rolls by on Club Blvd. I'm one week from my first dose of Ayahuasca and it is feeling like as I get closer, my life reflects back to me more and more that it is coming. …
Upcoming: Ayahuasca
Hello world, I'm checking in to share what's going on for me right now. This will be a short piece. I'm warming myself up for more writing in the next few weeks. The news of this writing piece is that in 10 days I'm flying to Peru to do a 9-day Ayahuasca retreat. I'm actually …
Creation, impulse, writing, eating, moving [free write / poetry]
I spend too much time in my head. Every time I am "thinking" I should just write. I think I used to do that, and the habit has been lost from me somehow. Maybe my demons tried to take it from me. ... Time flies by and in some moments I am a swirling mess, …
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What’s here now: possibilities
* new blog category! What's here now: Expressions of the present moment. Thoughts, feelings, experiences, honesty. Thanks for sharing the moment with me.* ... What's here now? Inspiration to travel! To just pick up and go somewhere, indefinitely... Soaring thoughts. Windswept, feathery, wispy, slick, driving, awe-inspiring, cliffy, craggy, coasting, slowing, slowing, slowing... breathing.. breathing... It's a beautiful …
What are you doing with your life? … a response. For parents, grandparents, friends, strangers, whoever.
My soul is on a healing and experiential journey. My priority is to follow that and enjoy the ride along the way. I am not currently concerning myself too much with my "success" by society's standards. That is a black hole of negative self-talk for me and takes me away from feeling my way forward. …
Nature Heals
I took a walk in nature today, and it absolutely transformed my mental state. I walked out the door full to bursting with flitting thoughts, anxieties, shoulds and should-nots, judgments, fears, questions, discomfort. It was actually, on some level, just a lucky chance that I actually went out there - in my moments of serious …
Happy Birthday to Me! + Thoughts on Bravery
It's my birthday! I'm in Pescadero, CA with the beautiful Kyrstin Lulow, and it is crisp and chilly but sunny outside, a great day to spend time outside, and also a great day to spend time in a coffee shop in a cute little town. It's a great day to be alive! I've been struggling with …
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Open Letter to Liberal America: Let’s Choose Compassion
First : To anyone who feels afraid for their safety as a result of this election or just by the course of life in this country as you know it - I am sorry. I love you, and I'm sorry. This situation is about you much more than it should be about me. Everyone in this country deserves …
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Limbo, and Learning about Myself
Hello everyone! Happy Halloween! This is my first blog post that isn't related to my thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail (and has nothing to do with Halloween, sorry if I got your hopes up). For those of you that followed the blog because you wanted to keep up to date on my PCT trip, …
Expressions from this side of the here & now 