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Living

YOUR STORY ISN’T LINEAR.

It’s my birthday and I have a message for you: Your story isn’t linear. Your story is written and rewritten with every breath, every thought. We spend so much time plotting how we’ll get the job, the relationship, the house,…
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CALIFORNIA IS BURNING. AGAIN.

I was born on this land, where fire now burns. And for the last decade of my life, I lived in California, both north and south, in cities and in urban-wildlife interfaces where the toll of human existence—as defined by…
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FOOD AND WELLNESS ARE POLITICAL.

Hello, and welcome to the fresh faces around here, and the ones who’ve been around a while, too—I’m so glad you’re here and I can’t wait to get to know you. I’m a writer and photographer working to democratize wellness…
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EVERYTHING WE MADE UP.

At the beginning of quarantine, I read an article about how the new rules of coronavirus revealed what a sham so many of the habituated regulations we abide by are. Suddenly, rent could be frozen!, healthcare for all sounded tame!,…
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WHAT I WOULD SAY TO YOU TODAY, MAMA.

For Mother’s Day, 2020. Mama! This is my twelfth year without you, and still you are teaching me about time, sand through hands, losing what I love most, the beauty of iris on a one day bloom, your books unfolding…
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BUT WHY IS IT RACIST?

There was quite an Internet scuffle last week, as a prominent white woman made some appalling comments about two wildly successful women of color (WOC) in the food and wellness spaces. I could care less about petty media scuffles. However—this is…
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DO YOU REALLY CARE? #JusticeForAhmaud

Friends, tell me what happens to you when you hear the news that a healthy, vital black man named Ahmaud Arbery was shot to death doing nothing but jogging in his own neighborhood by two white men with guns in…
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Keokea sunset

THE LAND THAT TAUGHT ME.

This is the land that taught me: I am not an exception. I am nothing without earth, I am inextricably connected to earth, the health of the earth, the sky, the ocean is my responsibility. I’ve been thinking a lot…
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THE BECOMING: CAN YOU FEEL IT?

Can you feel it? That discomfort, that being stretched beyond your skin, that longing for what was, that not knowing, that anxiety, that spinning out and shutting in, that itchiness, that boredom, that need for more food, more sanitizer, more…
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HOW TO BE A RADICAL IN THE TIME OF CORONA.

Take a good look at yourself in the mirror. Wonder who you dare to be in this moment of mass alarm, canceled everything, communal seeking, social distancing, self-quarantine. Remember being a young babe, 2005, studying Sanskrit. Studying Proto-Indo-European root words…
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