Stop Deep Sea Mining Off the Coast of Norway: An Open Letter to Parliament

On December 7, 2023, the Norwegian Parliament voted to move forward with deep sea mining off the coast of Norway in an area of the ocean roughly the size of the entire United Kingdom (UK). Norway will be the first country in the world to go through with deep sea mining, actions strongly advised against

A Witching Hour

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before… -Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Autumn has swept itself through the land, and, as with every year, I have found myself yearning for the transition to slow itself down, for the change of colors to

Disconnecting from Disconnection

This is the first, the wildest, and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. -Mary Oliver This morning is my “Saturday“, two beautiful days off spanning ahead of me. After a week of unseasonably hot weather filled with working hard and playing harder, I relished in

Burning the Old Myths

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi One of the greatest myths I bought into before moving to Norway was that by moving to a new country, I would automatically subsume all that the country had to offer. Somehow, through books read, through the internet,

Welcoming In the Light

“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. …How can you help but grow wise with such teachings as these- the untrimmable light of the world, the ocean’s shine, the prayers that are made out of grass?”

Redefining “Wild”

“A meaningful life is also a messy life. Let it all be recorded.” -Clarissa Pinkola Estes, The Power of the Crone: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype For many years now, I have strived to live a wild life. A life that goes against the grain, that defies the norms, that feeds the

In Which We Start Afresh

“What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, dear citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.

Who I Am and How I Found My Way Here

“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.” -Anais Nin A shallow life. Is there any storyline more terrifying? Come to think of it, parts of Anais Nin’s collection ‘Delta of Venus’ could come close, but with her sentiment above, I wholeheartedly identify. Without treading