Category: Living Questions

  • Mirror Mirror On the Wall

    Mirror Mirror On the Wall

    Sometimes. But changing relies very heavily on hope. Hope that what we become will be better. But what if it isn’t? What if we’re fixing what’s not broken and making a mess instead?

  • Equality, Heavy Boxes, and Everything in Between

    Equality, Heavy Boxes, and Everything in Between

    The real challenge isn’t deciding whether I am a feminist, a capitalist, or a nationalist. The challenge is resisting the urge to reduce one another to a single word, and instead allowing space for the contradictions that make us whole.

  • The Worth-Gap.

    The Worth-Gap.

    There is a part of me that wants to believe worth is like a fuel tank. We start with a heart and mind full of it, but every time we do something “unworthy,” the tank empties.

  • The Lesson or the Life?

    The Lesson or the Life?

    Are we genuinely unhappy, or are we just busy wanting things we don’t even really want?

  • Loving It Doesn’t Make It Easier

    Loving It Doesn’t Make It Easier

    Unlike a corporate job with a handbook, passion rarely comes with a manual. The plan is often too wild to even say out loud, which makes it feel fragile.

  • Old Self, New Wisdom

    Old Self, New Wisdom

    That’s the rhythm of becoming: sometimes we move forward, sometimes we circle back, but always we gather pieces of ourselves along the way.

  • Lights, Camera, Action.

    Lights, Camera, Action.

    We throw the word ego around casually, but beneath the accusations and excuses lies something deeper: a director, a mask, a script.

  • Empty by the End

    Empty by the End

    ..and I am so puzzled by our madness, in that we are so in love with a thing so fleeting-our body- and fear that we might die someday when in fact every moment is the death of a prior state. You oughtn’t to be afraid that what happens daily might happen once!

  • Eyes Off The Goal, Heart on the Process

    Eyes Off The Goal, Heart on the Process

    The real value of goals isn’t in reaching them-it’s in who we become while trying.

  • Show Me Your Feed

    Show Me Your Feed

    From childhood circles to digital feeds–how our choices define us. Growing up, my mother always had strong opinions about the friends I kept. Not just mine, but my siblings’ too. Somehow, she rarely approved of the ones we chose for ourselves. Maybe it was her Christian upbringing, maybe the teacher in her, or maybe simply…