I am not this person. Am I this person? How was I this person? Questions reeling through my mind the other day, after a bad night. After a moment when I messed up. When my…
Browsing Category Life Thoughts
Forgiving past versions of ourselves
Are you ever triggered by a photo, a memory, a thought that suddenly forces you to remember a time when you acted really stupid or hurtfully? Maybe you said the wrong thing or acted like…
The grace of strangers
There’s a grace to strangers. A voyeuristic sense of wonder that comes from observing people at home in cultures that are new to me, in cities and towns I’m walking for the first time. Everywhere…
On feeling behind..what does it mean to have wasted time?
Sometimes I find myself dwelling on all the time I’ve wasted. On how behind I am at everything in life and how far ahead everyone else seems to be. Whether it’s how long it took…
Home on the road
Home when traveling takes many shapes. Sometimes it’s the room booked for three nights. Nondescript beige walls trimmed with thin chocolate molding. Green leaves blowing and bowing outside the window. Wifi that comes in and…
Nostalgia, my funny friend
Nostalgia visits me sometimes. More often than many, I would venture to guess. When it comes, it weighs like a heavy cloud on my chest, moist and full of emotion, threatening to burst, in streams down…