by Hiro Boga | Community, Inner Journeys
It’s the beginning of November, and the maple trees outside my window are stripping for winter in a shimmer of autumn gold. Nature tells the season’s story, and foreshadows the stories of the seasons to come. What stories have you been telling yourself...
by Hiro Boga | Inner Journeys, Soul Business
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. –Leonard Cohen, Anthem It’s a chilly October morning. Outside my window, the mountain’s powerful face is veiled in...
by Hiro Boga | Inner Journeys
On August 6th, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. An estimated 140,000 people died in the aftermath. Today, the city of Hiroshima leads the movement for world peace. I am proud to be named for this city, which has transformed a legacy...
by Hiro Boga | Community, Inner Journeys
For much of my life, I’ve been in a profoundly playful, intimate, sometimes exasperating, richly rewarding relationship with writing. I love words, I love the immersive alchemy of writing, and I seek to bring to life stories that liberate rather than congeal....
by Hiro Boga | Inner Journeys, Self-Care
My ancestors made the perilous journey across the Arabian Sea from Persia to India nearly 1300 years ago. Something of their peregrine spirit must live in me, because I’ve moved so many times during my life. First, from India to North America, when I was just 21...
by Hiro Boga | Inner Journeys, Relationships
Last weekend, I learned that I’ll have to leave the house I’ve lived in for the past three years. Its owner, a lovely woman, wants it back for her own family as a vacation home. Not today, not tomorrow, but sometime in the next few months, I will have to...
