French Riviera~  Provisioning and Frolicking in the Côte d’Azur

French Riviera~  Provisioning and Frolicking in the Côte d’Azur

I woke up early that morning as the sun was rising, before guests had risen, before the dogs, and snuck to the aft swim platform to do my yoga and meditation session.  The morning was serene.  The water so calm it looked like glass, and looking out south, the sky bled into the sea like one giant mirror.  You could not tell sky from sea.  Keep tracing the horizon and your eyes land upon the lovely city tucked into the mountain.  Charming houses, hotels, and restaurants all in shades of whites, and peaches, topped with terracotta roofs.  The sun’s morning rays cast a golden glow against the landscape, glazing it like one giant welcome apricot macaroon I wanted to sink my teeth into.   Continue reading French Riviera~  Provisioning and Frolicking in the Côte d’Azur

Turkish Delighting –         My Love Affair in Istanbul, with Tango and Baklava

Turkish Delighting – My Love Affair in Istanbul, with Tango and Baklava

Usually down for an adventure, I had decided instead of flying, to take a €30 bus ride from Bulgaria’s east coast, down into Turkey. A 6-hour journey and an on-the-spot $30 expedited visa later, the coach bus scarcely filled with Turks, Bulgarians, a few Eastern European stragglers, and myself in the back–propped contentedly against the window–arrived in Istanbul. Continue reading Turkish Delighting – My Love Affair in Istanbul, with Tango and Baklava

Part II:  Encoding in Bulgaria

Part II:  Encoding in Bulgaria

I had been granted the experiential insight of understanding how when you visit a place, and openly, you connect and align to it, you will in turn take on the place’s frequency– forever bear it.  For me, it felt like adding a vibration of a place’s essence to my inner “basket of fruits,” and resonating it from then on.  So too was I doing here at Beglik Tash, and had done in Plovdiv, and Sofia. Continue reading Part II:  Encoding in Bulgaria

Rožat ~ Creating in Croatia

Rožat ~ Creating in Croatia

I had wanted quiet. I had spent the last two and half weeks living in a sleepy fishing village next to the sea, in the south of Crete, and it had been an incredibly nourishing time for me, full of immense creativity and productivity. One could say, with artists and artistry there is usually either an ebb or flow for standards of creation. Another place in nature was the ideal choice for me.  And then I stumbled upon Rožat… Continue reading Rožat ~ Creating in Croatia

Answering the Call

Answering the Call

“If a person has had the sense of ‘the Call’ – the feeling that there’s an adventure for him — and they don’t follow that, but remain in society because it’s safe and secure, then life dries up. 

If you have the guts to follow the risk, however, life opens up all along the line. I’m not superstitious, but I do believe in spiritual magic, you might say. If one follows what I call one’s bliss — the thing that really gets you deep in your gut and that you feel is your life – doors will open up.” Joseph Campbell Continue reading Answering the Call