I used to think meditation was bullshit. OK, I take that back. I thought it was a nice idea reserved for the overly spiritually minded. Intellectuals do crosswords and hippies do mantras. I simply wasn’t interested. Until I found out what it is not. Meditation is not an achievement but an experiment. The first time …
I am not an optimist because I am stupid. I am an optimist because I know how ugly life can be. There are these annoyingly happy people out there who give you the rosy version of everything. You know the type. Something bad happens in your life and they send you those cheery notes with …
When I first left LA and moved to Berlin, something kind of crazy happened; I disappeared. Not in the literal sense, but in the way that I saw myself. There were many things going on at once. For the first time in my life I was able to fade into the background because I didn’t …