Hi friends, I’m back, like I promised 🙂 The photo above is the view from my window, out of which I contemplate the new life that stretches out before me, full of scary emptiness yet bursting with possibilities (if you’re an optimist). I arrived in France a few days ago, after an intense couple ofContinue reading “A New Life”
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Day 313. The Pain of Great Goodbyes
We’ve all had ’em, but man, can they sting! All this meditation is supposed to teach you to live in the present, but more and more, as my final departure from the U.S. approaches, I find myself overcome by waves of nostalgia and sadness, which the Buddhists would say stem from clinging and an inabilityContinue reading “Day 313. The Pain of Great Goodbyes”
Day 160: Survived a Week in Mexico (Sober) !
Yeeeeesss ! Coming home at 1:30 am every night, spending evenings listening to crazy free jazz concerts, sitting in the audience sipping tea/water/coke …. My week long vacation in Mexico City was AWESOME ! I am soooo grateful : To be at a point in my life where “having fun/going out” and “drinking” are noContinue reading “Day 160: Survived a Week in Mexico (Sober) !”
Day 104: Paris, Paris, Paris!
Ah, the City of Lights, my old home. I landed yesterday and spent most of the day sleeping after a 15 hour flight (I took 3 different planes!). After years of living abroad and going back and forth across the globe I don’t know where my home is anymore. I have grown used to sayingContinue reading “Day 104: Paris, Paris, Paris!”
Day 2: Here we go!
Yep, you heard, me: day 2, not 1. Why, you ask? Because, my friend, for me, day 1 was spent in bed, running to the bathroom to puke bile every hour, nursing the worst hangover I have had in a very very long time. Sigh. Let me rewind a little bit. Two weeks ago, IContinue reading “Day 2: Here we go!”