Spiritual Journey

  • Sunset Pancake Nostalgia

    Sunset Pancake Nostalgia

    This vivid memory takes me back to our old flat on Maple Street, where I stand by the kitchen window as I am skilfully flipping pancakes. While I perform this culinary ballet, an 8 p.m. June paints the sky with golden hues and a delightful wisp of mouthwatering smoke fills the air.ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” is… Read more

  • I am Alive.

    One morning, just minutes before my alarm was set to go off at 3 a.m., I abruptly woke up to an excruciating pain in my back and stomach. The darkness of my room enveloped me as I lay paralyzed with both fear and agony. Living alone, in a foreign country, I felt a sense of… Read more

  • Struggling Souls

    From nothing, from nowhere, and sometimes at the most inconvenient times, and without notice, comes flooding inside of me this tremendous longing and it stops me from what I am doing, from where I am. Everything and everyone fades into the background as I slip into a vortex of emotions that I can not place,… Read more

  • Another untitled

    Between us, a curtain of social conventions is fluttering. We faintly can see each other’s outline looking through this translucent veil and both reach out, once in a while, to move it away. But once close enough to do so, we suddenly feel the mountain of world, the ocean of differences, and choices we have… Read more

  • Remember

    Every burden you think you endure alone is endured in a togetherness that is hard for me to explain. If you don’t know now you will know at the right time.Beyond the world of our physical existence, there are a few other worlds where you know me just as well as you know yourself. In… Read more

  • Forever Green

    Forever Green

    Whenever I return to this place used for at least 6 generations of my family, the memories of the arduous summers spent here come flooding back. It is a hassle to reach these small eastern villages but I always come with the same heart as if the spirits of this land call me anxiously when… Read more