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Finding Work-Life Harmony: Reflections on My Last Day in Japan
At Kenrokuen in Kanazawa I'm sitting in my quiet room at The Royal Park Hotel in Shiodome. I savor these last few hours with a soy latte...
Marichit Garcia
Feb 255 min read


Winging It Only Works If You Have Wings
Photo by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash Recently at work, I have always felt like I've been winging it. I couldn't seem to hold on to having...
Marichit Garcia
Jan 294 min read


Daily Thirty, #00012
I have always had a fondness for the season of October. The whole idea of "thinning of the veil" and passing through walls and worlds. In...
Marichit Garcia
Oct 17, 20242 min read


About Nature
I grew up not knowing the names of trees and flowers. Nature was an optional knowledge and visual background within the environment where...

Marichit Garcia
Dec 15, 20223 min read


Restart
In the first week of February, I got very, very sick. It wasn't Covid. Since my last post, the dayjob work had become extremely...

Marichit Garcia
Feb 26, 20225 min read


First Weekend: Time Traveling and Tangled Thoughts
The first week of the dayjob has worn me out so badly that I fell asleep right after dinner on Friday night and slept right through into...

Marichit Garcia
Jan 23, 20223 min read


A Year of Transformation & Re-enchantment
My days will soon make a significant shift as I slip back into full-time employment starting Monday. Going back into employment was the...

Marichit Garcia
Jan 15, 20223 min read


The Beginning of an End
I have a lot of particularly strong thoughts and feelings today. My current way and days of life are perhaps coming to a kind of end and,...

Marichit Garcia
Dec 20, 20212 min read


Last Few Weeks
I remain in expectation of a full-time dayjob offer. It was supposed to come just this past week but I assume things have gotten hectic...

Marichit Garcia
Dec 19, 20213 min read


Take the Time. Take the Path.
Yesterday’s art market turned out well. I already earned back the fees for 2.5 out of 3 days. So the next two selling days this weekend...

Marichit Garcia
Dec 13, 20212 min read


Let’s Do This (For Real)
By this I mean writing everyday. I lost my journaling mojo sometime in the past months. Heck, I may have lost it sometime last year after...

Marichit Garcia
Dec 8, 20212 min read


How Did 2021 Go?
As far as I am concerned, 2021 was as tough as if not tougher than 2020. The situations were different but the anxiety and stress were at...

Marichit Garcia
Dec 4, 20214 min read


The Way into the Deep Forest
The way into the deep forest Is sometimes a cracked rib, A heart torn by broken bone, Like letting out the seams Of a summer dress that's...

Marichit Garcia
Sep 21, 20211 min read


Small Upheavals
There was a kind of turning point more than a week ago. (I burst into a long flood of tears.) And then I just couldn’t go on in exactly...

Marichit Garcia
Aug 23, 20214 min read


Notes to Myself
Here is something from a journal in 2014. The same lessons come up again and again even seven years after. A few I’ve started to learn...

Marichit Garcia
May 18, 20211 min read