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May 2015, I leaped into the Circling practice for the first time with a weekend intensive. In that past year, I had been pushing myself. I lead my own meditation retreat, started a dharma house, did my first Mondo Zen teacher training retreat, and more. By May, a major life change felt imminent. I was…

Okay, this post is kind of a cheat. I’m sharing my last three months of FB posts that relate to monastic practice and life. I think they’re actually very good compared to most of my blog. They’re more raw and uneditted. Much less self-conscious.  was going to do a full 15 months worth, but just…

I’m one of the most financially savvy people I know. I taught myself by reading experts over ten years. I learned how to handle wealth because I needed the skillset. I paid for my first car with my own hard earned money of $1,600. I paid for my first cellphone. I worked throughout high school.…

Today, I’m 30 years old. Age, of course, is just a sociocultural invention. Yet, it conditionally has meaning, value, and purpose. In this case, it’s offering me an opportunity to reflect over my thirty years and my next thirty. These days, it feels like thirty is a milestone. Thirty is when adult life is suppose…

Reddit is an amazing site. But don’t visit it. Really. It’s also the biggest time sink on the internet, bigger than Facebook. Back in July 4, 2016, I declared freedom from Reddit. For years, I had an on and off again addiction to the site. I particularly loved the WritingPrompts subreddit and particularly Luna_lovewell’s writings.…