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Homesick for the Stars
This essay is about travel, wanderlust and our perennial need for discovery. I wrote this while staring at a glorious sunset.
As the golden hour sky gets swallowed into the borrowed moonlight, I try to find my way home.
But I’m beautifully, hopelessly lost.
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When Life Happens, You Write
When you’re a writer-at-large, you let life happen to you. That way, you let your eyes steal everything that you see, put a spin on it and spill onto paper / machine some “stream of consciousness” kinda cool stuff. And if I am a true writer-at-large, it’s only fair that I must observe, muse and write about it.
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