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  I’ve sat too long staring out into the ocean today. I turn to rest my cheek on a bright red shoulder, stealing the warmth that the sunshine left there. I had a popsicle and a bag of chips. I had my journal. In the ocean and the sun, I had everything I need. WhatContinue reading “Getting fired and changing plans”

There are birds hopping around under my feet and inside this grocery store’s café. They slip on the tiled floor with every labored jump, navigating the aisle between the gherkins and cans of sustainably harvested tuna. They’ve come in, like me, looking for food. This organic grocery store and café was actually a reason whyContinue reading “Moving forward, moving back North”

With its cacophonous, steady presence I am endlessly grateful for the existence of the sea. Here on the southern tip of the North Island, the rising swells crash fearlessly onto rocks. I would not want to swim here. Instead, I want to explore where high tide crashes into Lake Onoko, I want to do yoga,Continue reading “Spiralling down the North Island”

A rectangle of moonlight appeared on my bed. Streaming through the crack in the curtains, I was surprised to see the amount of light the quarter moon threw off. Like a thick shawl on the cool spring night, it reflected back at me the light of the sun, long passed over the curve of earth’sContinue reading “Worlds beyond the world”

Sometimes I imagine that before incarnating into this life I sat around a coffee table with a bunch of souls making plans. “Hey! Let’s meet when we’re 11 through friend’s of friends and start hanging out years later,” or, “Tell you what, I’ll be walking down the street in 2010 and we’ll make brief andContinue reading “My first spring birthday”

I’d only been here for a few days when there was an acro-yoga class in the city that a few of us were keen to take. Since buying a car when travelling New Zealand is a popular activity, one of the interested parties had wheels and we hopped in, eager for our acro adventure. ThoughContinue reading “Acroyoga and Feeling at Home”

Intentional community used to enthrall me. I love the concept of people with no familial obligation living together and sharing a life. I would hear talk about such places in my early twenties and listen with fascination, wanting to know more. Brief experiences with them shortly thereafter confirmed my suspicions: community life suited me. Now, IContinue reading “Hanging out at KP”

I was in an airplane somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. My body and cell phone—both of them going off old information—told me it was one time and day, while the flight information screen in front of me told me a very different time and day. Okay, I thought, Okay, I’m in a different place now.Continue reading “Arrival: Transitioning to NZ”

“The power that has created the eye can see.” ~ Swami Radha After riding the ferry twice a day every couple of days I’ve become accustomed to the way my eyes play with the water. I stare out toward the lake the boat rushes over and every time I look away at something stationary, theContinue reading “Ferry Rides and Seeing Clearly”