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  • Multiverse buddha
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    How to live life as a citizen of the world

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    The learnings did not end when I decided to take my life into my own hands. If anything, they became more apparent. I started challenging myself to be more–in the day-to-day and the adventures to come on the desert sands…

  • Eyes See All
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    How to live with your eyes wide open

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    Seven years ago, I was on the verge of an awakening. Metaphorically, one might compare my existence before a deep catatonic state of consciousness. I honestly cannot remember chunks of my life from my all too active participation in the rat…

  • Italian poem

    Parli Italiano?

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    People often ask me if I speak Italian, and I never know what to say. I do, but it’s broken Italian at best. I understand if people speak slowly. When I am in Sicily visiting my relatives, the language of…

  • View of Swiss Alps from Gstaad

    How to live with your eyes wide open

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    Once upon a time, I lived in a deep catatonic state of consciousness. Although I don’t know the exact moment when I snapped out of it, I do know the forceful jolt inspired a quest to reclaim the only holy grail that…

  • lazy cat on the beach with text

    Hell no, I’m too young to be a cougar

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    The stories people tell…  In this case, the storyteller was a 25-year-old client service agent at the luxury resort where I am staying. He sat down to chat after I ordered lunch, to tell me about the things I should…

  • Young woman wishing in nature
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    Living your truth: how to be brave

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    After nearly a decade working in tech, I wasn’t entirely surprised when AOL issued me a pink slip. In many ways, it was a relief–for all the time spent in those hallowed halls and on the Ploum couch in our marketing huddle, vast…