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Ohana — Hawaii Teaches Me About Community

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:38:52 +0000

Lack of community and contentment has been my greatest challenge over the past year. While the pandemic fueled a lot of this, deciding to not renew my SF lease and nomad with a vague plan didn’t help either.

This road can be pretty lonely. Meeting amazing people over and over helps. You do develop rapport deeply and quickly. Yet, you’re constantly saying goodbye, crashing off the high. It’s the price for sharing a piece of life with so many people who are inspiring, highly motivated, and full of energy. Then the moments go by where there are few people to fill the void. Finding moments where your only retreat is what stillness you can find in the mind.

Keanu Reeves’s Perfect Answer

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:14:00 +0000

I spent months thinking about this clip. Initially I was taken back by how great a response KR gives. Overtime I became obsessed. Why was this answer so profound to me. To the Audience. To Stephen Colbert. Why after many weeks of replaying it in my head do I still find myself re-watching. Every time finding a new sense of peace.

Watch this Short clip:

https://youtu.be/7c2olMFEhK8

The audience and even Colbert are left speechless. Keanu’s response was profoundly sobering, softly dark in its reality. Comforting, and then humorous again. It was like we spent a long time on a trip that lasted a few seconds. He manages to place the focus not on his own opinion of what we will experience upon death, but the experience of those who stay alive.

Things Repurposed for the Universe — A Spiritual Lesson of Minimalism

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 02:20:00 +0000

As a budding digital nomad traveler, who’s closing in on their last two weeks as a full time San Franciscan. I’m having to part with most of my things. Many of these things are obvious like extra shoes, extra blankets, furniture. What catches you off guard are the things you absently assumed would always be there.

My brother hand painted this meditating alien on a canvas as a Christmas gift in 2012. I had it on my wall in a few places in Kansas City, and once I left KC it joined an exclusive seat with a few other items on the trip to San Francisco. Over the years it’s been a staple on my walls and brought me a bit of peace. Reminding me to relax and not take life so seriously.