A visit to the Pacific Coast and the Redwood Forest left me with a sense of wonder and the inevitable acceptance of what Albert Camus was trying to say.
We are here. And that is all. Choose wonder over meaning.
Every year, at the confluence of Halloween and Diwali, I chuckle. I set out my witch and my diyas, my purple spotlight and misting cauldron…
In the silence of the moon, and the twinkling of the stars, I find solace when the world is being erratic again. They are the…
In the left corner of my garden stands a young red oak tree. It was a small thing when we moved in three years ago. …
Downtown Dallas. Not a place you normally go nature-spotting. And yet, sitting outside this old building with nothing but a green hedge around its perimeter…
Tall, decaf, no sugar, Pike’s Place with extra milk. The overpriced, heavily chemicalized, yet aesthetically sold coffee that lends an identity to the blandest of…
“Create a life you no longer need a vacation from”, they say. So I’m trying. I want a life in the jungle, surrounded by flora…
“Never travel with someone you don’t love”, said Hemmingway. And since all those I love were either busy, sick or uninterested, I went with the…
“Would the Buddha agree?” I pondered. Buddhism insists on being present and observing your thoughts and feelings and not attaching yourself to them. Transcendental happiness or nirvana is the ultimate goal of a Buddhist’s life. But the path to this ultimate “liberation of your mind” requires that you relinquish all attachment to things and people. While I generally find Buddhist principles to be beautiful and enlightening, I find this one to be impractical and unnatural.