Fear not, Pumpkin.

I mentored an Afghan newcomer last year. One fall day when we met, she was visibly upset. When I asked her why, she said, “There are monsters everywhere! My neighbors have dead people on their grass and they scream whenever someone walks by. It is so scary!”  I had never looked at American Halloween through…

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How are you?

When I went, I went cold turkey. Five years ago I grew so jaded by the riptides of negativity and algorithmic platters of content that I quit social media altogether. I closed all my accounts and was happy about it. Then came coronavirus when we all found ourselves in a sort of socio-cultural aspic—dampened, suspended,…

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There is no “supposed to.”

“What am I supposed to do?” These words are so common among spiritual seekers that there is not a week that goes by that I don’t hear them. These words, in this context, come from a deep yearning and a desire to be on the right path. People want to know what god or the…

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