The Winged Rock.
A most magical place.
A drawing of a symbol we saw thousands of feet up on one of the walls of Shiprock, either carved or naturally occurring—and a perfect representation of the place.
My Birthday Gift to Myself
Actually, I just woke up one day and decided I didn’t want to feel like that anymore, ever again, and so I changed. Just like that.
—Unknown
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
—Ansel Adams
Nepalese Soul
Kathmandu Restaurant
Albany, California
A restaurant whose kind food I will reminisce on my entire life.
Be Still and Know
Japanese Tea Garden
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back… simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.
—Pema Chodron
Motherland
In a Victorian tea shop in the middle of San Francisco near my thirty-first birthday, I fell in love with Russian tea. And by fell in love, I mean a door opened that was curious—deep and unexpected.
