I live aboard a sailboat with my husband, daughter, and two cats, wandering wherever curiosity and favorable weather happen to agree. Home moves. Horizons change. The view from my window is rarely the same for long. In many ways, this life has become an extension of questions I have been asking for years.
What am I without my memories, roles, and preferences?
What is the nature of this experience?
Who is the "I" in it?
Where does the source of creativity emerge from and how do we invite it in?
I write to explore these questions. Much of what appears here begins as a journal entry. A passing thought. A dream. An observation. A conversation with my husband. The feeling of staring at the ocean long enough for the boundary between the ordinary and the miraculous to become difficult to locate.
My writing moves freely between poetry, story, memoir, and reflection. I am drawn to questions of identity, ownership, impermanence, and the nature of experience itself. To the places where our assumptions begin to loosen and the familiar starts to reveal itself as something far larger, older and more mysterious.
Many of these pieces are less concerned with arriving at answers than with learning how to stay with a question. They are attempts to pay attention. To follow a thread wherever it leads. To remain curious long enough for something unexpected to reveal itself.
This blog is a collection of those explorations. Notes from the journey. Conversations with the world. Messages in a bottle.
Thank you for joining me.
- Masha Lezhen