navigating the world, one moment of gratitude at a time
Obvious question – why The Devi Dasi? It feels almost bizarre to call it a rebrand but I felt the need for an identifier that was as pervasive to me as my name. I’ve written about my name and the weight and sanctity it holds to me here. In addition to my name, however, as…
I’ve toyed with the idea of a blog for 11 years. Buried deep on the internets are my initial iterations, recanting my first ever encounter with boba/bubble tea, the trials of a younger brother addicted to runescape and the musings of being the only woman on the Boy Scouts Venture Crew division. In some ways,…
In less than month now, I’ll be 25. This event has always held significance for me. Perhaps because my mother would always tell me that 25 is when my brain would fully develop and I could consider myself a “real” adult or perhaps it’s because 25 felt so far away in my freshman year of…
Grateful for time spent in nature where the silence that closes in on you engulfs you in yourself and the absence of cell phone service makes you cognizant of the fact that it’s just a tool, not something that owns you or requires anything of you. I don’t know why it feel like such a…
Sooooo I went to a Lavender Festival last weekend. I was very tempted to write something pithy like “live your life like a bee and collect the honey 🍯 ” or “grateful for the amazing lavender festival” (I am, for the record). But as Rihanna reminds us on her defining motivational number, “Hard”, I stay “never lying, truth…
Amongst many other things, this project has been greatly illustrative of the connection between sleep, giving, the meaning of “my ability to create” and the simplicity of gratitude. My gratitude journal and #100daysofgratitude have always been about taking inventory of the daily banalities we take for granted while being open to the possibility of connecting to something…
I’ve been thinking about how so much of what we do every day is a performance to appear a certain way and enhance an already formulated image of who you are. Social media is of course the extreme “meta” version of that cognition – allowing us to mold our lives into the best possible, FOMO…
