Learning to Listen
Ganesha and the Elephants of Gonarezhou I’ve been studying Tantra for fifteen years, and I’ve learned that its deepest teachings don’t just live in books — they live in experience. They speak through the body, the Earth, and the beings who remember what we’ve forgotten. In India, one of the most beloved gods is Ganesha, […]
The Audacity of Longing
Longing Claimed Most of my life before studying Tantra, I thought of longing as something secret—something to be hidden away. It lived unnamed in the shadows, something I wasn’t supposed to want too much or reach for too openly. Longing, I believed, was for what couldn’t be had—an ache for something unattainable. There was a kind of […]
Why Pleasure Isn’t a Luxury — It’s the Key to Living Fully
The 5 Levels of Pleasure: How a Workshop on Joy Became a Journey Through Grief, Healing, and Wholeness I still remember the moment I hesitated before signing up for The Five Levels of Pleasure workshop. It was the summer of 2012, and my father was dying. Every cell in my body told me I shouldn’t go — […]
Love Remains
The Past Is Just a Story We Tell As I get older, I’m realizing something quietly profound: the past isn’t a fixed place we can all point to—it’s a story we tell, shaped by the lens of who we’ve become. I grew up in a large family, the kind that spills across generations and dinner […]
The Ripple of a Gentle Giant: Remembering Jane Goodall
The Difference We Make Jane Goodall died this week, and I found myself feeling the deep impact of someone who had quietly shaped me for so many years leaving the planet. It feels almost impossible to believe she is gone. I started watching and following Jane’s work when I was around ten years old. Along […]
Breath As a Practice
Everything Begins and Ends with the Breath A little over twelve years ago, I began studying Tantra. Tantra is a Sanskrit word that is often translated as to expand or to weave. Many Tantric texts teach that “Nothing exists that is not divine.” That includes the earth beneath our feet, the relationships that shape us, […]
I Don’t Know You
Happy Birthday, Mom I woke up this morning thinking of you and longing to know more about you. That longing stayed with me throughout the day. I found myself looking through old photographs, hoping they might spark a memory or two, or perhaps reveal something I had forgotten. In my search for memories of you, […]
Faith
Faith Williams Mark July 26, 1932-September 3, 1984 Faith Leads the Way Home The Last Time You Stroked My Hair Today is another anniversary of your death. It was Labor Day that year as well. September 3, 1984. So many years have passed without a mother. Without you. So many years since I looked into […]
Joyful Pride
