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Running Scared: Wind Season in a Fire Horse Year

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Running Scared: Wind Season in a Fire Horse Year

The Tibetan medical tradition has a name for what a lot of us are feeling right now. Loong (rLung)—wind energy, the element that governs breath, nervous system, and the movement of mind—is constitutionally volatile in spring. Add a Fire Horse year, in which flame and wind feed each

Viewing In-Between: Films That Refuse to Be One Thing

Viewing In-Between: Films That Refuse to Be One Thing

Last week, I talked about “blended genre” flicks, with a promise to take a closer look the following Friday. Well, here we are—Friday the 13th, which also happens to be Dakini Day.* Fitting, given what I’ve come to realize about the films on this list, and their uncanny

Wanting Otherwise: On Inevitability and Refuge

Wanting Otherwise: On Inevitability and Refuge

I’ve been thinking about inevitability. The inevitability of falling apart. The inevitability of sickness, old age—if we’re so lucky—and death. The inevitability of phase change, from the smallest, tiniest repositioning of the elementary particles that comprise the light show we call our human embodiment, to the