Kidlat would have been 12 years old this June. That is 84 years in human time. But he has always just been a baby to me. He arrived in our home, a small light gray toy poodle, the size of a teacup. He hopped around so silently that we were afraid we’d accidentally step on […]
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For You, This 2022: Clarity
It is amazing what you find when you tune the entire world out. When you hit that mute button for a while. There is so much noise out there. The algorithm, trying so damn hard to carve a piece of your mind space, bit by bit, until it is no longer yours. The birds were […]
‘How fast can you get back to your breath?’ – my favorite yoga teacher would ask this as he ends an intense session, easing practitioners into a Savasana. When your heart rate is up and your muscles are tense, how easily can you go back to a state of calm? We’ve all had different experiences […]
Are you a journey or a destination kind of person? I used to ask that question a lot, until I realized they’re one and the same. The destination is the journey is the destination. Everytime I reach a goal or a certain level of success in any aspect of life, there’s always a next level […]
I usually write a somewhat elaborate new year’s wish on every first of January. (At least I’ve been doing so since 2012.) For many reasons worthy of another post, it has taken me three and a half months to finally release one for this year. And this may be the simplest by far: Dear You, […]
A couple of years back, I told Jim Ayson, my late boss, that one of my personal laws is to surround myself with people that I want to be like. I was pertaining to him. Before I met Jim for the first time, I had googled him extensively. I found, among many others, that he […]
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For you, this 2015: Be Mindful
I had a good talk with Lucille over wine right before the holidays. And it mostly revolves around her 2015 resolution: mindfulness. It’s interesting because mindfulness is a word I have overused in the past year. I have gone to such point that I’ve obsessed about tracking myself in an attempt to be more mindful of everything that […]
In the beginning of 2013, one of my commitments to myself was to write more – both here in my blog and in my personal journal. I was pretty consistent in the first few months, and was very happy about that for a while. But then, as with most new year’s resolutions (and as a […]
I have not read all of Neil Gaiman’s (@neilhimself) works, but for some reason I love him to bits and I wait for his New Year’s greetings yearly. This 2013 it goes like this: It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a […]
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For you, this 2013: Here and Now
Sometime in August 2012, I fasted from social media for thirty days. It was such a cleansing experience. Technology “has no bounds” they say, and so sometimes we spend too much time in the future, or in some other place far away. We spend gatherings with our heads stuck on our mobile phones or tablets […]