“My most favorite magic trick in the presence of shame, vulnerability and discomfort is to disappear myself, entirely. I can flip a cognitive switch that ejects my mind from my body with complete and total efficiency. But you can’t dissociate in the sea. Not without risking your life. The first lesson the ocean taught me is to never turn my back on it unless I wanted to chance embarrassment, injury or worse.”

“Drought really has nothing to do with dryness at all. The yearning to: break the cycle of dry abyss, release one’s self from lack, flow again, quench one’s thirst, and experience an environment so abundantly nourished — this is the energy that makes up drought. It is the spiraling through never-ending cycles of desire.”

“Lakes are so many different things to me: a place to gather, celebrate, exhale, cry, think, explore, and relax. They are both distinctive landmarks we’ve built communities around and ever-fluctuating boundaries, a source of rich biodiversity and often ecological crisis.”

“I watch the river go. It is solely interested in the business of flow , and reminds me, in my own life, to do the same. It’s not so much that the river screams ‘GO,’ but that, it is wise enough to know that together in the way of its own impeccable timing - to question its personal momentum - would be to doubt its place in the grander scheme of things…”