Look Homeward, Angel

I’ve loved this experience but I love the life I have, too.

It has been revelatory and heart-opening.

And now I want to go home. I want to go back to the familiar comforts and glorious sunrises and breathtaking wildness of Northern NM.

This way of life in Barcelona has been about being, much more than doing.

And I can take that sense of how to approach life home to NM.

I want less doing and more being, as a new friend said recently in a Facebook post.  … More Look Homeward, Angel

The Dragon Girl

By Shavawn M. Berry Author’s Note:  In this piece I re-tell the story of the Dragon King’s Daughter, my favorite Buddhist parable. The essay was originally written six years ago, but I have never shared it until now. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the Dragon Girl.  As I watch the divine feminine … More The Dragon Girl