Book of Hours: A Meditative Collection
‘Home’ is also the past. Home is also where history lives. We tend to conveniently forget this in the West. We’re too busy forging full steam ahead in the name of something called infinite progress. I believe that cultivating a sense of the past is a way of reconnecting with a secret, suppressed part of the self. It is discovering that, in a sense, our souls have all been ‘pre-loved.’ It is discovering a way forward, a healing process, a newly and more authentically spiritual path. It is choosing to lean into the ‘wind’ and ‘flow’ of our lives, into the river of time. It is choosing to rewild the spirit...
31 / 10 / 2022
Meditatio 9: Fragrant Time (I)
“The aimless life is the constant theme of Zen art of every kind, expressing the artist’s own inner state of going ...
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18 / 02 / 2022
Meditatio 8: The Ritual of Craeft
Hello to everyone! I am back with a new episode after a bit of a break over the holidays and early in the year. I h...
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16 / 09 / 2021
Meditatio 7: I Remember (Je me souviens)
Have you ever viewed one of those YouTube videos called ‘ambience’ videos? There are all kinds, of course. There ar...
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08 / 08 / 2021
Meditatio 6: The Beauty of Belonging
For most of the pandemic, most of us tried to avoid any real travel. Only last summer, we cancelled our travel plan...
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26 / 06 / 2021
Meditatio 5: To All the Old Souls
In the course of writing my book, A Bloody Song: How Anime and Literature Collide , I came across a great many text...
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29 / 03 / 2021
Meditatio 4: A Castle in the Clouds
A Dream Come True As a girl, I had long dreamt of living and studying in France, and my dream came true when I was...
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28 / 04 / 2020
Meditatio 2: History Refracted Through a Glass Paperweight
A World in Free Fall I released a first, self-published essay in late January 2020, a few weeks before the world ...
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28 / 02 / 2020
Meditatio 1: A Thirst for Beauty
The Pain of Ugliness For my first official blog post on this site, I would like to write a bit about myself by wa...
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