Jaymashi Sathiharu! (Hello friends!) I’m slowly but surely assimilating to the different pair of shoes for each room, using a bidet (or small pitcher of water) and my left hand every time I use the restroom, which is often only a hole in the ground. I cried the third time I had to use theContinue reading “Culture Shock: Month 1 in the Himalayas”
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The Vampire Test
“‘Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.’ – Derek Sivers “There’s a funny story in John Richardson‘s biography A Life of Picasso. “Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking all the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like he squeezed one ofContinue reading “The Vampire Test”
Do it anyway doctrine
Three weeks ago I swam/body-surfed through a rain-swollen river with my friend, in a thunderstorm. We screamed and yelled and sang way out there amidst the rapids, perched on a pine log lodged between the rocks. I found myself at the mercy of a force beyond my control. I felt alive. Since then, I’ve startedContinue reading “Do it anyway doctrine”
Devin Leigh Snyder 