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Goals, Crushed

Goals, Crushed

pity this busy monster, manunkind,   not. Progress is a comfortable disease: [. . .]  listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go —E. E. Cummings My four years as an undergraduate in Cambridge scarred me in many ways. I’ve softenedread more

The Edge of Longing

The Edge of Longing

April 2023 As soon as I turned the corner, I knew my weekly shopping budget was going out the window. For weeks at the farmer’s market, the vendor on the corner had buckets of tulips—little things, barely buds, for sale at a premium, premature price.read more

Begin Again

Begin Again

Beginning ended, this is how the end begins.  We wake in the other world, sky inside our eyelid.  Lens swivelled inward, the sea’s volcanic vents Leach into the brain. Here is self’s jungle ajar.  [. . .] The day is perfect. There is only one.read more

Spring 2023 Rest & Reset

Spring 2023 Rest & Reset

April 14-23, 2023 Register *Please note the revised schedule as of 4/4/23* I don’t do cleanses. And yet, my body—the miraculous thing that it is—is always cleansing all on its own, through the natural processes of detoxification and digestion it’s designed to do to stayread more

For-give and (don’t) for-get

For-give and (don’t) for-get

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” —Rumi February is rough. There, I said it. We’re in the last stretch of winter—the deep bottom of the earth’sread more

Experience

Experience

January 5, 2023 My teacher cued us through the standard surya namaskar vinyasa, and just like I’d done hundreds of times, I pushed myself from a chaturanga pushup into upward facing dog. Except, in the transition that had become as familiar to me as walkingread more

Those Who Can’t Do

Those Who Can’t Do

Presidents and pirouettes. Herbal formulas and quadratic formulas. How to read and how to listen. Shame, courage, forgiveness. These are some of the things I’ve learned from teachers over the years, lessons that have taken me by surprise by how tenaciously they’ve stuck in myread more

Midwinter Rest & Reset 2023

Midwinter Rest & Reset 2023

January 26-30, 2023 I don’t do cleanses. And yet, my body—the miraculous thing that it is—is always cleansing all on its own, through the natural processes of detoxification and digestion it’s designed to do to stay alive. In Ayurveda, facilitating the process of cleansing ideallyread more

On Beauty (A Reprisal)

On Beauty (A Reprisal)

The symbol of all art is the prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains.  —E. E. Cummings    Here we are, at the end. I was looking back through my document ofread more

Doubt

Doubt

Happy Samhain.  Before you get confused and wonder why I’m not wishing you a Happy Halloween, stay with me—the two holidays are practically inseparable. The most important of the four Celtic fire festivals, Samhain (pronounced SAH-win) is the midway point between the fall equinox andread more



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