Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
This was my first time watching the NYC Marathon. It was an amazing experience. The entire neighborhood was in the street, cheering, making noise, dancing, and having fun, welcoming with the same enthusiastic support the first runners and the last runners, the fast and the slow, as people of all races and...
You might know that I am part of the Interdependence Project (IDP), a non-profit organization based in Manhattan blending meditation, art, and activism. On November 7, I will meditate for 4 hours as part of a 24-hour meditation marathon organized to support IDP’s annual fundraising. Donations collected for the 24-hour marathon will be...
The cheerful person who defined New York City as the city that never sleeps must have never stepped on a subway car. There is no time of the day, no subway line, no neighborhood that is immune from the army of NYC subway car sleepers. We sleep in the morning and in the evening,...
I’m looking out of the window at a bright blue sky and the naked tree branches of the end of winter, with new buds waiting for the spring a few weeks away, shivering in the loud wind. For a moment, just a moment, I feel at peace. Just looking out of my window and...
Sometimes I feel that there are two parts of me, and they don’t talk to each other. They act out. Part A: “Why in burning hell did you do that? Part B: “Why are you always criticizing me?” Part A: “Because you’re damn stupid!” Part A: “Again? You did that in purpose!” Part B:...
At the beginning of October I decided to suspend my blog, and my life. I took a month off from work, packed my stuff, and jumped on a bus to Pennsylvania. I worked for a month in Norristown, the Headquarter of the Obama-Biden campaign in Montgomery County as a volunteer coordinator for Lower Providence,...
