“A husband and wife should be loyal to each other and try to make each other happy in every way… Today, we’re talking about finding God in family life. We’re talking about selflessness and how the husband can care for the wife and the wife for the husband…” Sitting in the temple, my gut tightens…
Tag: Yoga
City of Acceptance
Driving in traffic, bumper to bumper, and a big truck cuts me off, beeping loud like why do I even exist. We all inch forward at stops and starts, getting madder by the second. I watch one guy talking and gesturing angrily on his car phone. Another guy in a fancy sports car shakes his…
Daily Practice
The morning had begun fine, just like any other. I had rolled out of bed and walked to the bathroom to brush my teeth, while thinking about the day to come. Thinking about what work shifts I had today, who I might see, and excited about what I might eat. So quickly though, those mundane…
The Storms
When my dad died, the storms came again. I hid in my basement apartment in Chicago as the biggest storms of my life raged outside my windows every day. Sometimes they brought intimidating dark clouds to greet me, and other days they roared in with full wind and hail, shaking my apartment and threatening mass…
Path to Forgiveness
“It takes about six months to get in, because our doctors are so busy,” a woman tells us on a conference call at work. Her tone is matter of fact as she explains how the trans youth clinic functions at the hospital she works at. “The families come in and meet with a psychologist and…
Behind the Backdrop – Letter to Dad
Dad, you showed me something deeper than anything I’d ever seen before. You gave us a clue of what’s bigger than the physical things we see and touch. There’s something bigger here that I’d been missing. All the physical stuff changes, but there’s something underneath it that stays the same. Truth is I could toss all my identities in the wind. They’re all going to change anyway.
Gendered Basketball
One evening after dinner at one of the yoga centers I lived at, a bunch of us went off to play basketball. There was a group of guys that played regularly that staked out the main hoop in the gym. They were all close to six feet tall, and they were good players. A bit later a…
Why am I Writing this Blog?
For almost two years, I had the life-changing opportunity to live at two different yoga centers, meditating a lot and connecting to my inner Self. They were set in remote, natural beauty on top of mountains and surrounded by forests. The air was clear, silence was present, and life was simple though profound. I slept…
I Need You to See
Something in me wants to be better than you so it can feel good enough. It sees a world of limits, a world where there’s only so much worth to go around. It’s deep in some dark corner inside me. I don’t want it to be there, actually I hate that it’s there. So I…
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