A real-time journal entry written while the author’s aunt was dying in hospice and her son underwent brain surgery, exploring grief, separateness, transcendence, and the spiritual idea of dissolving the self to rejoin oneness.
A reflective piece on how the body stores trauma and how surgery — even minor procedures — can reawaken buried grief and past trauma, drawing on the author’s own experience and the idea that healing involves both body and mind.
A reflection on the spontaneous creation of the song “Oh I,” written and recorded in one uninhibited session as the artist sang out a low mood, presented with its chords, drum pattern and full lyrics.
A teaching essay outlining five kinds of peace — financial, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual — arguing that each must be tended, that you must heal yourself before helping others, and describing the marks of peace in each domain.