Category: Spirituality
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If you are a follower of this website, you may have noticed that it has been inactive for the last two weeks. This is by design. One of the difficulties of posting on a website once a week means I must have finished mulling over one idea or story and completed that reflection in my…
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Is there any home that doesn’t have some sort of junk drawer? Or a coffee table with some random fuzz and a nail file in it? Perhaps this hopeless, lost desire for the perfect home possessed us all at the same time. But this isn’t a piece to blame social media. It’s a piece in…
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There is a particular, three hour hike on the coast of Italy that I did during a backpacking trip, right after I quit my job at 28. It was the beginning of the road to understanding chronic illness, the human body, and acceptance.
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My husband woke up with an unshakable feeling that he needed to climb a mountain in Oaxaca. He asked me if I wanted to go, but it was his feeling, his task. If you wake up one morning feeling like you need to climb a mountain, you definitely should.
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It was uncanny how my landlady and the lady in the market told me the same thing. “We hold them in our hearts.” On that day, I held my grandma in my heart, and stared into her photo. I was suddenly gripped with the distinct feeling that her eyes were looking directly at me.
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It has been three years since the passing of Ustadh Usama Canon. It is strange, this thing we call “time,” that supposedly heals all and yet is nothing but a human construct. Ustadh Usama’s legacy still permeates my everyday life. In his final act, he taught me how to die.
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Vulnerability is usually seen as weakness. It’s a state of being exposed, and not something we usually want. Recently, I experienced vulnerability, and it taught me the necessity and beauty of embracing the shadow in everything. Like a beautiful a yin yang.