“Hard times ain’t gonna rule my mind no more” – Gillian Welch in her song “Hard Times” It has been daunting to share anything here for a long time. I haven’t felt an abundance of hopeful musings, thanks to the eternal pandemic circumstances we are … Continue reading Unnecessary Suffering

Hello from extremely charming Bozeman, Montana– and my 4th month of 2020 living as a nomad. Someone introduced me to Townes Van Zandt recently and I’ve fallen into that particularly rare and soothing kind of understanding only a great song can provide. This time its … Continue reading Lean Into The Wind

I can never decide– is Wyoming a solitary place? Or a lonely one? Two very different vibrations to me, solitary feeling calm and intentional and lonely feeling heavy and imposing.  Despite its size and its bustling energy, I often felt incredibly lonely in Chicago. On … Continue reading A Solitary Place

Driving towards home through Arizona, I passed a church whose black vinyl sign letters were arranged to say “be still and know”. It gave to me the sense of all the dualities within myself that I’ve yet to grasp. Like how I could go on … Continue reading Be Still and Know

Waking up in the Palm Springs desert, it was 60 and sunny. I sat on a bright turquoise outdoor couch. And yet in the mountains just above, I could see that it had snowed, casting juxtaposition like you’d never imagine. I think maybe this trip, … Continue reading It All

Some time ago, a teacher told me that I would not get the things that I want until I first get the spiritual growth that I need. A need is actually more compelling than a want, she told me. As it states that which our soul … Continue reading You Get What You Need

Every day we can watch the tide. It is low, it is high, it is receding, it is flooding all around us. Sometime long ago I forgot that these are all valid ways for the tide, for life, to be.  The day I got to … Continue reading The Tide

When I set forth planning this trip I remember phrasing my intent to someone as “just needing various non tundra places to exist”. That was a breezy enough baseline to aspire to. But actually being out here, I’ve been weighed so heavily by the question … Continue reading Places To Exist

This trip has felt an invitation to allow in something I’ll call– easy destiny. Like many abstract things in life, maybe we can define it by knowing what it isn’t. It’s not having to earn where you’ve landed, like only the gruel has allowed you … Continue reading Easy Destiny

Written just before setting off on my roadtrip. But photo from my first main stop, in San Francisco, hiking the Lands End Trail. Life sure has a way with timing, revealing to us new layers of love only as we’re about to part from them. … Continue reading More Love