by Daisy Rosales | Jan 2, 2023 | self-improvement, spirituality
Happy 2023! As I type this, I realize the last time I wrote a “hello new year” post was when we entered 2020 (here it is). What a whirlwind swept us all— all of humanity— shortly after those days. I’m not sure how to measure the stretch of time from...
by Daisy Rosales | Nov 28, 2021 | self-improvement
My mom tells a story of how there was a period in my infancy when I refused to eat anything but peach-flavored baby food. Worried about my nutrition, she took my pediatrician’s advice and mixed in a bit of cooked egg yolk, hoping I would not notice (apparently...
by Daisy Rosales | Aug 22, 2021 | self-improvement
Between mid-June and late July this year, I started to really feel it: an incoherent, rootless bone-tiredness that settled in and couldn’t be lifted. 15 months of pandemic endurance, and my defenses had finally crashed. I felt entirely depleted. And I’m...
by Daisy Rosales | Mar 14, 2021 | self-improvement
“I had always thought that I would read more if I had the time but I’ve discovered that I would not.” These are the words of a meme comedian (I don’t remember whose), posted on Instagram shortly after the world shut down in March of last year....
by Daisy Rosales | Jan 24, 2021 | mindfulness
Many of us think of the great outdoors as a place to be active— complete with gear from REI. National parks are for hiking, rockclimbing, fishing, mountaineering, and sleeping only if you can manage to carry your belongings on your back. For some (and sometimes for...
by Daisy Rosales | Dec 31, 2020 | mindfulness, spirituality
There are myriad labels we can use to describe the events of this year, but “pleasant” is not one of them. A global pandemic that has taken too many lives. Destructive natural disasters that point to our climate crisis. The exposure of systemic racism in the US, and...