Appreciating experiences from assisting the 2025 Queer Retreat at Dhamma Dena with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis

Learning to listen more and stay with the body, trusting the present unfolding, and growing loyalty to love and compassion.

As the greys come in, binaries fade and subtlety rules; learning to be with sensations without building more with them.

Excited to share my first podcast recording! Hear me on Mistakes Were Made “How to Fail at Sex” where we talk about body awareness and pleasure, approaches to relating and engaging, queer and trans experiences, for all genders and expressions! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

The next time someone asks “is that your birth name” I’ll say “yes” to honor being born again and again into each moment
#transbuddhist

Do you suck out the juice of a ripe fruit even before you can finish peeling it, or do you cut it and let the juice run out or insist on peeling it and wear the juice all over your fingers

Grateful for the opportunity to be an assistant teacher this March with Arinna Weisman & Ian Challis in Washington State for Lotus Insight Sangha. 

Entering (with gratitude) the last two weeks in which I can say “my mom died last year” //Rest In Peace // Min-D 6 May 1955–4 June 2023

It’s nice now on BlueSky, wide open, hardly anyone is here. Later it’ll feel like a party, the kind where everyone was invited.

I want to hear a Kendrick Lamar with Justin Bieber (new romance) song

Beginning in January at Spirit Rock, I’m training as a Community Dharma Leader. In my community, I am surrounded by my elders who have been my leaders from the beginning. Thank you to Lotus Insight Sangha, Arinna Weisman, and Ian Challis for guiding and leading me on the 8-fold path.