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Oct 29, 2018
2 min

Whiskey-kissed Roads (When rain leads to memories)

Sometimes I sit down and playback a years worth of memories in my head. A timeline of meaningful occurrences, both devastating and...

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Music:: Susie Sue "Seasons Change"

Mar 14, 2017
2 min

Ashes & Marigolds - A Varanasi Portrait

Monkeys play in the limbs of banyan trees while fish swim through the thick body of the Mother swollen and grey with ashes and ribcages...

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Sarah Delia

Feb 15, 2017
3 min

The Easy Street of Chiang Mai

Collectively i’ve spent years wandering through India, a place that never stops swirling itself up around you in muddy waves of worry and...

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Beneath the Mango Trees (broken love weeps)

Music :: "TwentyTwoFourteen" by The

Feb 14, 2017
2 min

Beneath the Mango Trees (broken love weeps)

Coconut daydreams and foreign cities can only soothe the wound for so long. Time and space are good distractions from the pain that I...

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Emerging from The Den into the Moonlight

Music :: "A Song That Will Help You Remember

Feb 5, 2017
2 min

Emerging from The Den into the Moonlight

I think this is the liberation of Self that I never knew I needed. Reaching out from the caves of my primitive mind to the place where...

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Waking Up to the Warrior, the Wolf and the Letting Go

MUSIC ::: "Near Light" by Olafur Arnalds

Jan 3, 2017
2 min

Waking Up to the Warrior, the Wolf and the Letting Go

This was the year of letting go and finding balance in the wind alone. This was the cycle of awakening and breathing from the very core...

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MUSIC ::: "Tilikum" by Benjamin Frances

Dec 30, 2016
2 min

Long Shadows, Deep Shadows

Dear Shadow, I’ve met quite a few of you in my time here, in this body, throughout this cycle. I’ve tried to fight you, hide you, turn...

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MUSIC ::: "Here With Me" by Susie Suh

Dec 15, 2016
1 min

Tea Cups, Subtle Waves & Moonrises

The rocky coast was abandoned by all the summer lovers, and we sat amongst the stones and listened to the water play on the rough shores....

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Sarah Delia

Dec 13, 2016
1 min

Ganga Prayers

Set fire to the water From the shapeshifting shores Of mothers body Shipping prayers to calmer places in sailboats made of sticks ...

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Sarah Delia

May 1, 2016
3 min

Narender & the Gypsy Colony

March 7, 2012 - Narender & the Gypsy Colony I was alone, wandering around the streets of Jaipur with a broken cell phone and no access to...

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Autumn: Transitions, Struggles and a Reinvention...

Sarah Delia

Nov 3, 2015
3 min

Autumn: Transitions, Struggles and a Reinvention...

I took the time this morning to sit and allow my mind, my heart and my higher self to surrender to the shifting shadows and find reunion...

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Rising From The Ashes - Survival, Surrender, and Saturns Return

Sarah Delia

Sep 5, 2015
3 min

Rising From The Ashes - Survival, Surrender, and Saturns Return

I sat down in the tea room this morning and contemplated what I would drink to begin a new day... a day that had already begun before my...

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Reflections in the Cup - Philosophy of Life as Learned Through Tea

Sarah Delia

Feb 16, 2015
4 min

Reflections in the Cup - Philosophy of Life as Learned Through Tea

“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found?...

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Mining the Negatives - Letting Winter Take You In

Sarah Delia

Dec 13, 2014
2 min

Mining the Negatives - Letting Winter Take You In

The curtain has finally been lifted for Madam Winter to do her work. “Breathe”, she says. “Deep”, she says. “While walking through the...

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Breaking the Surface - Finding Home Right Where You Left It

Sarah Delia

Oct 17, 2014
4 min

Breaking the Surface - Finding Home Right Where You Left It

My blog was on hiatus after the descent of my Macbook Pro into a dark but temporary coma. Thankfully she was revived with little...

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Waking Up to Save Yourself (with the help of a Utah Stranger)

Sarah Delia

Jun 28, 2014
3 min

Waking Up to Save Yourself (with the help of a Utah Stranger)

There is nothing quite like those moments when the cumbersome clouds of thought pollution break long enough for you to take a breath of...

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Sarah Delia

May 19, 2014
3 min

A Praying Mantis and a Plane Crash

We are creatures that have a biological tendency towards fear. We are wired, biologically, to simply strive to stay alive… yet our...

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Sarah Delia

May 3, 2014
2 min

Inspiration in Blending Worlds

You find yourself at a fork in the road… one path is pebbled with forbidden innocence, one path is paved with familiar faces. Which one...

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Sarah Delia

Apr 14, 2014
3 min

... Opening ...

Drishti (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root "drish" - to see] Seeing, the faculty of sight; focus; intention; also to behold with the mind's...

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