by Eva Fernandes | Feb 3, 2022 | Spirituality
8. pm. The office is empty. Darkness. Silence. The desks all around me are empty, with papers scattered and notebooks haphazardly shut – frozen in time. I look down at the list of things to do. Just a little more to go. A YouTube pre-roll ad is playing on my...
by Eva Fernandes | Feb 3, 2022 | Spirituality
My MONKEY Mind Takes Ovaaah! It is so hard to S L O W down in a world and economy which needs you to be in constant depleting motion. And there is nothing more agonizing than knowing you can’t sit down on your meditation cushion. What’s the alternative? Go into nature...
by Eva Fernandes | Feb 3, 2022 | Spirituality
Part 01. I’m Fixed. I’m screaming in the forest. Screaming. From deep within me, is a voice I haven’t heard. Words, curses, and rage. Surrounded by tall pines, I am deep in the forests of Durmitor National Park, Montenegro. It is a beautiful land encapsulating a...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 29, 2022 | Minimalism, Spirituality
The turtle is ahead of me. He is drifting. Drifting. Drifting. Drifting. So, I speed off in his direction until we are within each other’s line of sight. He lazily looks at me. I feel acknowledged. And then I start to play my turtle swimming game. I take a deep...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 29, 2022 | Creativity, Minimalism, Spirituality
I was out of shape, out of breath, and out of luck. Just climbing up two flights of stairs knocked the wind out of me. And yet, I had agreed to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with a group of friends the following year (2012). I knew I had to do a lot to prepare in the...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 15, 2022 | Spirituality
“Paddle! F***ing paddle!” I knew we were in trouble when I heard him curse. Our otherwise pious Hindu Nepalese rafting guide, Daya, never cursed. During the five days we had been rafting down the Sun Kosi river in Nepal – he had been the epitome of propriety....