Another Trip Around the Sun

Posted October 22, 2026

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I’m in the midst of pre-birthday and pre-book launch tasks, and as joyous as both these events are, they have taken up my time, so this post is from 2020. Remember that cra-cra-crazy year? Well, thankfully, in this post, I only wrote of the joy and lifelong love of my many aquatic adventures. Birthdays are reminders to feel my great fortune for all the love from those who raised me, for those who have surrounded me for decades and been part of my escapades, and for the friendships and living still ahead. I am grateful for you readers too. Indeed, as Rumi assures us, When you do things, from your soul, you feel a river, moving in you, a joy.

Read on my dear one. “Water baby” is pure delight, xxoo

Water baby

Find a Way

Posted February 26, 2026

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This week I thought so much. Not unusual. In fact, my mind is often jam-packed with ideas even in sleep. Yes, yes, I understand this is far from optimal. And yes, yes, I do occasionally exhale and attempt a break even as the complexities of our complex world complicate my thoughts further. One tries to find the simple. After all, one wants a piece of peace while observing the morning light filtered through the fluttering curtain lace. But then we have a week like this, filling one with questions and what if’s and mystery. Still, we endeavor to dust off uncertainty and say yes to the unknown. Somehow we dance our way to find a way.

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Sand Castles

Posted February 12, 2026

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Sand Castles. Beach Dreams. High Hopes. No matter what you call them, we all got them. Staring across the horizon, designing a better version of yourself, for yourself. In the quiet stolen fleeting minutes who doesn’t dare something better? There are days when those fantasies feel exactly as far fetched as the word implies. Just a million miles away. Other times, against the odds, even on shifting sand, quite credible. Perhaps as a world watching the heroic the daring the daunting and dangerous Olympic feats we all allow our dream to grow a bit bigger. Shout our aspirations out there. Come what may.