As I pushed back into my airline seat, I exhaled… not so much in relief as in resignation. I was feeling a very old, familiar sensation. It was a sense of dimensional shifting – the world I was leaving, the world I was moving toward, and the suspended “nowhere” place in between them, where I …

As the peace and pace of my new Deoghar life slowly comes together, work itself remains the missing piece of the puzzle. In these early days at the small organization where I’m working, there is an alarming, and sometimes amusing degree of time required to do the simplest things – find a desk at which …

We had entered 2006 by mere moments when, in celebration, I waded into the dark, night waters of the Indian Ocean and gazed up, deep into the Milky Way. I mused happily and with gratitude at the turning of “time” (relative as it is), and silently welcomed the year ahead. In that moment, it was …