Astro Fonda

In front of my house, there’s a tree that stands five stories tall. I live on the fourth, so I live in conversation with its branches. I’ve named it Serefé, which is the word Turks use when toasting. Serefé! Today I went to say hi; it had been a while. Its trunk, damp from the […]

We were sitting at a round glass table. It was a summer night. The stars sang like crickets and there wasn’t a hint of wind. Boys and girls in a circle, wearing colorful garlands and colorful faces painted with white, blue, green, and orange. Someone read a poem, and the rest of us painted it.

“The presence of God is experienced by everyone at all times. It’s just that we don’t recognize what it is.” David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. On the last day before heading to Chicago, I met up with my dear J, and we lay down looking at a pale gray sky, the final glow of the

“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” – Steve Jobs Imagine an electromagnetic field like the one generated by a

“Know thyself.”– Inscription at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. “The first thing for all human beings is to know who they are. Human beings live out their conditioning, they don’t live out who they actually are. They never get an opportunity to live out who they really are because they keep on reinforcing their

I turned 21 in Chicago. I was spending a year there, completing the final year of electromechanical engineering. I didn’t connect much with my fellow engineers, so I spent my days alone, walking, using my mind to decipher the mystery of life. What I didn’t know then is that the mind is like a scalpel,

I stand now at the threshold of a new adventure, and like any path worth traveling, it is well guarded by two dragons, one on each side of the door. These dragons are terrifying. In fact, they are fear itself. They represent my internal obstacles, the limitations of my conscious personality, wanting to prevent me