“Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling sub… more →
journal of a nomadwrote 1 week ago: “Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of bei … more →
wrote 1 week ago: I know this doesn’t look like a quilt. (Maybe just a little if you squint?) Every summer … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Since moving this blog from Posterous (RIP), the traffic has more than doubled and for the first tim … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeeme … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.” ― Helen Keller … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing muc … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “All of this seems as though it were yesterday, or forever ago, in that crevasse between space and t … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, o … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.” ― Gail Caldwell … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “Don’t let’s ever be afraid of things. It’s such dreadful slavery. Let’s be … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.” ― Azar Nafisi … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. … more →
wrote 2 months ago: "So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispens … more →
wrote 2 months ago: "There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everyt … more →
wrote 2 months ago: San Francisco, CA, March 26 — San Francisco is home to a wide array of environmentally conscious lan … more →
wrote 2 months ago: “The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That’s why I ran to th … more →
wrote 2 months ago: “When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discou … more →