Shark's Tooth

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Theft

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Weight

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Chapter 11: Weight

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Celestial

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The Pain and the Beauty

On Learning to See Without Judging

What does it mean to witness rather than judge? How do we continue becoming who we choose to be while living among those who see us only as who we were?

Chapter 10: Witness

Serrated, Not Broken

The Difference Between Belonging and Witnessing

Homecoming isn't always a return to belonging. Sometimes it's a recognition of how much we've changed—and how impossible it can be to show the people who love us who we've become.

Chapter 9: Belongs With Me

We ran all the way to the Strand before looking back to see if we had been followed. There we slowed to a swaggering knot, our gait halting in backslapping derision. We laughed—not just at the predicament of the newly indentured Australians, but at me, at my presumptuous American

Descent Into Form

Chapter 8: Avatara

A Passenger of Time

The nature of time—and how we perceive it—often depends on the space we find ourselves in. Is it now? Is it then? Somewhere in between? A spark of light in a darkened room. The latent quiescence of a moment. That tingling sense that you’ve been here before…

Chapter 7: Aayega

Releasing Ourselves to The Consequences of Change

Gandhi was not afraid of consequences. He showed us how to unlock gates while acknowledging the dangerous necessity of courage as we passed through them.

Sūryodaya (Ending)

Letter from Agra

We arrived in Agra two days ago–but as my son Max said: It might as well have been years before. The experience bent our perception of place and time. Arriving via rail at Agra Cantt, the ever-present red-shirted porters helped us with our bags and into the

Chapter 5: Saunf

Chapter 5: "Saunf" How we live in the "In-between"

The Beach Scene

Chapter 6: Smriti

Chapter 4: Orphan

Fr. Bernie

Fr. Bernie embodied the innate ability to combine joy with introspection in life, while acknowledging the challenges of our human journey. He was born in Ireland and became a Catholic priest. After being called to serve in the United States, he met Marcia, who embraced his unique gifts as a

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