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the notebook.

Slow essays on tarot, journaling, healing, travel, and the books shaping the way I think.

Featured · Reflection

On learning to sit with silence

The first time I sat alone with no phone, no book, no music, I cried. Not out of sadness, but recognition.

Feb 12, 2026 · 6 min

Tarot

What tarot is actually for

It's not fortune. It's not fate. It's a language of images for the parts of us that can't speak in words.

Jan 30, 2026 · 8 min

Journaling

The morning pages that changed me

Three pages, longhand, before anything else. Six years in, here's what actually shifted.

Jan 12, 2026 · 5 min

Travel

Notes from a monastery in Ladakh

Eleven days of silence, thin air, and a monk who taught me more with tea than with words.

Dec 20, 2025 · 10 min

Books

Reading is a spiritual practice

A defense of slow reading, marginalia, and the kind of attention that changes you.

Dec 5, 2025 · 7 min

Healing

The small griefs we don't name

Not everything that hurts is a tragedy. But it still deserves to be witnessed.

Nov 18, 2025 · 6 min

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Letters from the notebook

A slow, monthly letter with reflections, a tarot card to sit with, a book I'm loving, and quiet updates from retreats and workshops.

no noise. only what matters.