Deep Thoughts

It is time to explore my love/hate for Sundance. It's been happening my entire life. Once a year the whole town/mountain range put on their best for the Sundance Film Festival. One of the biggest, most-attended, best-known film festivals in the world. Right here in my hometown slash Park City. It's great for tourism, it's great for the local economy, great for local talent to get their big breaks, the list goes on. And each year it happens, I've observed as my opinions of the festival wane and wax. I literally have no inspiration for my writing this week so I thought I would explore my opinions here. I'll start with what really sparked this need to form an opinion: my need to form an opinion on the Women's March that happened in Park City last year. Something so historic that so many women and men in the world got to be a part of, and how I feel no personal connection to it. The Women's March that happened in Park City is talked about mostly by cele...

A few years ago, back when I still donned dreadlocks and had yet to officially begin my spiritual journey, I met a Green Witch. She was at my house for a backyard summer party and she began to tell me how she believes herself to be a Green Witch, with the power to read energies and how they affect each other. "In your case, for example," she said to me, "Your energy is touching almost every person in this backyard. Some more than others. Very unique, you should be aware of that." I looked around at the different groups of friends and strangers mingling, trying to conceptualize what she said. I remember thinking, "if this is real, I need to be more careful at how I interact with others." That was the first time I started to become aware of my influence on others and their effects on me.   This week in my meditation group at the youth homeless shelter, the concept came up again. O ne of my students asked me about how negative energy can be spread from...

Photo credit: @TibetanPortaits on IG. Follow! I've got some thoughts on my mind so let me get right to it, my biggest new years goal of 2018 is to write a blog post every week. That means I will have written 52 blogs by the time we ring in 2019. That means every week I've got to find the time to sit down and write something worthy of being published. Because I can tell you right now, that my daily journal would bore the hell out of you. And the journalistic work that I publish is worked on for months, usually an assignment and always highly edited and constructed. These posts are just me, my thoughts and my laptop. So, I'll probably be writing mostly about life and experience because, well that is where writers draw from. Hopefully here and there I can manifest some deeper philosophical thoughts to share. I'd like to open up more about my experience as a woman, who is buddhist, who is 23, who is queer, who is living in Salt Lake City. But you see, even those are ...