In my 20s I so yearned to find my cave. I thought I’d escape to that cave and not emerge until I was enlightened. The fact that I was struggling in relationships and graduate school, I kept telling myself, had nothing to do with that desire....
In my last few columns, I have been reminiscing about my first few days at university. One of those memories has to do with my one and only in-person encounter with the incomparable revolutionary and inspiring poet, Maya Angelou .
For the birth of my three children, I made a simple request to the doctors and the nurses. It had nothing to do with painkilling medicine (or lack thereof). It was a request that was met with amusement, a chuckle, and some puzzlement.
In the movie Avatar , when the character Neytiri finally meets human Jake Sully, they exchange a saying that has been a part of their love affair: “I see you.”
I see you.
This is what we want in a love affair. We want to breathe...
I have a child who is getting ready to apply to colleges now, and that is making me go back and ponder many things about my own college application experience . This has me thinking about how we fully belong in, and are excluded from, the...
I recently had a lovely conversation with a group of young people , beautiful people, who are searching and seeking for a life that is spiritually open and porous, inviting and welcoming, yet rooted and grounded in teachings and practices that...
The holy and blessed month of Ramadan is upon us. It’s a holy month for Muslims: we work on inner purification and discipline, as well as an embodied practice of empathy and justice, identifying with those for whom abstaining from food is not a...
A few years ago, I went into the Shinto shrine of Fushimi-Inari in the lovely city of Kyoto for the first time. It was a warm and humid summer visit to this thousand-year-old shrine, and a few of us made the pilgrimage together. A lovely...
