My hair feels heavy on my head and my eyes are forced closed. I keep my head down as the space between my toes and fingers is filled. I am being bathed, but I am not wet. And there is a word for what I am. Thank god someone made a word. I am oddly relieved to have a name and be one thing today.

By Sara Moreno The Places that Scare You is American Tibetan Buddhist Pema Chödrön’s second book to be published. Throughout her life, Chödrön has written to help establish the monastic tradition in the West, and share ideas with Buddhists of all traditions. In this second book, she focuses on the practice of bodhichitta . Chitta means “mind”, “heart”, or “attitude”, and Bodhi means “awake”, or “enlightened”, or “completely open”. Chödrön equates bodhicitta with our tende

A poem inspired by my college town The corner’s heartbeat wanes with the moon, as people become words written in the sand, erased with the tide of closing times. Taken away by conditions of the weather, or the conditions of three Godheads. Some people hover long enough to see insomnia turn off its lights. Long enough to wonder what happens near black holes, the hole in the wall, or fifteen parts of a whole. Time slows down things can’t escape in a second of distraction, o

Sara Moreno San Diego is a city in Southern California with a population of over 1.4 million people (2024 Census). The city is located on the Pacific Coast and is the eighth largest city in the United States, and continues to grow because of its pool of work opportunities and the beaches and warm climate it boasts. For this article, I will focus on gentrification in Barrio Logan, San Diego, and how the neighborhood wants gentrification to benefit natives in a way they call “

Sara Moreno A surfer at Black's, heading out on his e-bike after a sunset surf sesh Black’s Beach is not only known as the largest nudist beach in San Diego, CA, but in the entire United States. When it first opened, Black’s Beach, a non-rivalrous place of consumption, was one of the first and few nudist beaches in San Diego, CA. Currently, the portion of the beach that is managed by the city no longer allows guests to wear clothing optionally, but until 1977 the entire beach