1. “Don’t forsake the best of your life today for fear of missing even better tomorrow; say yes to now, and change with life’s changes.” མི་ལ

  2. Blog: Tiny Dancer

    a fun little clip of a friend dancing to a street drummer

  3. Blog: 3 reflections

    Madeline in the mirror, answering her unspoken questions…

  4. I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,
    distant and full of sorrow as though you had died.
    One word then, one smile, is enough.
    And I am happy, happy that it’s not true.” "Me Gustas Cuando Callas" - Pablo Neruda (tr. W.S. Merwin)

  5. Poem: tonight, I am undone : …I’ve never wanted hate, but it feels easier, frightened by the size of me…

  6. Poem: messages in the songs : …I imagine what she means to say…

  7. Blog: the most difficult of all

    Nothing, no teaching, no force, no realization will ever prepare you for love.

  8. “Writing, for me, has always been about grief and loss and sacrifice. It was about sorting through things. It was making sense of things. And I always felt like devoting myself to it made those things manifest in my life. The times when I was most prolific were also times of extreme grief…” talesfrommidair - "Operation Favorite Me"

Mila (Jacob Stetser)

Mila is a writer, photographer, poet & technologist.

He shares here his thoughts on Buddhism, living compassionately, social media, building community,
& anything else that interests him.

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