I stopped practicing yoga. Yoga had been a mainstay of my life for nearly 20 years. Its been hard to articulate why I stopped practicing yoga without people questioning my choice, or thinking that I’m judging their choice. I decided to write about it. Sometimes I...
If you ask almost anyone what is most important to them in life you will hear answers like, "my family, my community, my friends, my church, my health, making my community a better place...". But yet if you look at the way these same people spend their time, or...
Abundance is an overused buzzword in the "self-improvement industry". I'm guilty of overusing it. I had an idea in my head about what I meant by this, but recently had several embodied experiences of just exactly what abundance feels like in the body. I have been...
The events in Charlottesville, VA in August broke me open in a way I never expected. I've always seen my life as a journey of learning. Every challenge I've encountered has prompted reflection and learning. I like to think that all these learning experiences allow...
Since I made the decision to move to Angola, I have encountered a variety of reactions. Some people have looked at me like I'm completely crazy. Usually those people respond with an, "Angola??? Have you been there before?" Or admiration, "Wow! That's so amazing!...
Sometimes in Angola, additional payments are helpful for facilitating certain bureaucratic procedures. The other day, as we entered the province where the farm is, an immigration official needed to register my presence. It was no big deal, took less than 5 minutes,...
We recently had some German friends visiting us. One grew up in the former East Germany. Please excuse my ignorance if this is common knowledge, but I hadn't consciously realized this before. They were telling me that during that time, it was common for volunteers or...
I suppose it was only a matter of time before I wrote a blog about capitalism. While I know its currently nearly impossible to "step out of the capitalist" system, as many of us dream, I'm excited for this opportunity to at least dance around the edges. I'm excited...
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