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Tag: travel thoughts
Don’t Ask me where I’m From, Ask me where Home Is
One balmy evening in Domincal, Costa Rica, two friends and I found ourselves stuck in conversation with a friendly tourist from the United States. Despite […]
No One is Talking about God (Poetry)
Quite a few months ago, I traveled down to the south of Costa Rica to visit friends living in a remote community on a very […]
“How Many Countries Have You Been To?” & Other Questions I Avoid
Originally published on elephant journal. Nowhere on my website will you find a tally of countries I’ve visited. Not on my Instagram either. Several times, I’ve […]
Wanderlusters: Running Away Doesn’t Work. (But Run Anyway!)
Originally published at elephant journal—7 September, 2016. This is fun. I’m going through some old writings in anticipation of a possible project or two, and […]
I’m not responsible for anyone’s Transformation
Saturday, 23 June, 2018 — Finca Agroecologica La Flor, Cartago, Costa Rica — Yoga & Mindfulness Immersion I sit straddling the drum, rocking forward with each […]
Choose Power: A Dream-Inspired Thought Experiment
It’s been a wildly busy month, and though sharing something here has been on my to-do list every week, it just keeps getting pushed to […]
How to Return when there is No Turning Back
The plane lands. The boat docks. The train whistles as it arrives at the station. You step off. Pause. Look around. Friends and loved ones wait […]
Why I Don’t Care about International Relations
[Our] accomplishments do not make the Western paradigm exceptional or suggest in any way that it has or ought to have a monopoly on the […]
On Growing Wings & The Value of Figuring It Out for Yourself
I have the clearest memory of asking my father for help tying my shoes. I was sitting on the bottom step of our unfinished basement—I […]