In the Gathering Dark, Mercy

In the Gathering Dark, Mercy

These past nine months have inflicted brutal losses throughout our world. For some of you, loss has pierced your lives, upended your homes and businesses, taken from you people and communities whom you love. Loss has opened raw ground under your feet. All of us have...
The Gifts of Eldership

The Gifts of Eldership

One of the gifts of eldership is that you’ve experienced the truth of impermanence over and over and over again so that it transforms from abstraction to lived reality. You’re no longer waiting for, hoping for, working toward a state of permanence in any...
Fever Dreams, Pandemic Visions

Fever Dreams, Pandemic Visions

Instead of waiting, longing, hoping, praying for this pandemic to pass — which it will, as all things do, though we don’t know when, or how, or what our world will look like when it does — sit with the whole grievous, gorgeous, terrifying truth of...
Panther Medicine: A True Fable

Panther Medicine: A True Fable

My best friend’s cousin, M, kept a pet panther in her apartment in South Bombay’s very posh Marine Drive neighbourhood. The panther was a baby when M’s brother brought it to Bombay — an orphan he’d found shivering in the bushes near a tea plantation in Assam. M...