How Awakening to Our Ancestors’ Stories Fuels the Creative Process (Narrative Healing)
The stories of our ancestors lie dormant until we awaken to them. And their greatest power lives in how we engage with them, in the nexus between what they meant to our ancestors and what they mean to us.
A Journey Between Lives (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)
I explore how I found my way back to my ancestors through The Tibetan Book of the Dead. “Even as I gradually understood more about The Tibetan Book of the Dead, its essence eluded me… Then two things happened that changed my understanding of the book, as well as my view of how to live my life.”
Lessons from My College Son, While We Were Home Together (The Washington Post)
This is what happened when my son flew back to the nest from college because of COVID-19. “We fell into familiar rhythms — meals together, walks around the city, long talks — but with one big difference: My son is now an adult. He’s also part of the politically aware generation born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s that includes environmental activist Greta Thunberg and gun control advocate Emma González.”
On Pandemic Writing, Journeys Within, and Creative Possibility (Princeton Arts Alumni)
A look at my creative work during the pandemic, for Princeton Arts Alumni’s new online space, On Craft & Process.
My Great-Grandfather’s Saddle Rug Helps Me Remember a Tibet That’s Gone (Catapult)
Contemplating the mandala design of the saddle rug draws me into my great-grandfather’s story in a similar way, I like to think, as meditating on a mandala opens the door to its inner geography. It helps me keep hold of him, and of a Tibet that’s vanished…