Journal.
Notes from the road. And the cushion. Recent journeys. Encounters. The quiet things I am still learning to understand.
The Beauty of Impermanence Revisited
The Beauty of Impermanence Revisited I first heard the word anicca on the fourth day of a silent Vipassana retreat, and I remember laughing quietly to myself —...
Read entry →Living Sacredly
Living Sacredly I noticed it first on a Tuesday morning, standing in my kitchen, waiting for water to boil. My mind was already three meetings ahead, and my bo...
Read entry →The Wisdom of Aging
The Wisdom of Aging I turned another year older recently, and I noticed something odd. The candles felt less like a countdown and more like a strange kind of a...
Read entry →God in Grief
God in Grief I lost someone I loved, and in the weeks that followed I found myself doing something I had not done in years — talking to God. Not the God of any...
Read entry →Failure as Teacher
Failure as Teacher I have failed more times than I can count. Businesses that did not survive, relationships that broke under my own clumsiness, meditation ret...
Read entry →The Alchemy of Attention
The Alchemy of Attention There is a morning I keep coming back to. I was sitting on the wooden floor of a meditation hall in India, watching a single ray of li...
Read entry →Washing Dishes as Meditation
Washing Dishes as Meditation Last Tuesday I stood at my kitchen sink for perhaps twenty minutes, washing a single pot. I had not planned this. I noticed, somew...
Read entry →The Sacred in the Ordinary
The Sacred in the Ordinary I was washing dishes last Tuesday, half-listening to a podcast, when the water hit my hands and I actually felt it — the warmth, the...
Read entry →Forgiving Our History
Forgiving Our History I grew up in a country that remembers. Poland carries her wounds the way an old tree carries the marks of every storm — not as decoration...
Read entry →Justice Beyond Punishment
Justice Beyond Punishment I remember, years ago, sitting across from someone I had wronged in business. I had prepared apologies, legal language, a settlement ...
Read entry →Art as Awakening
Art as Awakening I used to walk through galleries the way I walked through airports — quickly, efficiently, checking boxes. Then one afternoon in Kraków, stand...
Read entry →Creating New Cultures
Creating New Cultures I have been thinking about this for years, mostly on long walks and during silent retreats. Every culture I have visited — from Warsaw of...
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