Today I leave my home on Lake Atitlan and hit the road again. What has been my home since January has been packed away.

I arrived at Lake Atitlan a year and a half ago with just a backpack of things—now I need a tuc-tuc to cart my things around (what’s next, a truck!).

It feels good to be this light again, to be back to how I’ve lived most of the last decade—out of a backpack—on the road.

Everything seems aligned with cosmic symmetry. What a year it’s been—Dreams are taking shape in physical reality—a land project Im undertaking with two friends has been handed off to a capable team (Holla Vicente and Oliver!)

I’m on the road in a new way, with a community I’ve chosen as a home to return to.

This last week has been an unexpected swirl of everything. A friend beloved by many left this earth last weekend. He left like he lived, dancing, radiant, ecstaticly alive. His death has deepened connections of our emerging community—acquaintances have become friends and friends family—brothers and sisters dedicated to live more fully in the unconditioned love that our departed friend Brett embodied.

“Don’t grieve,” Rumi said, “everything you lose comes around in another form.” We feel that Brett—we feel your jaguar spirit growling in our hearts. You will breath on in our commitment to this community and being the best versions of our selves.

My neck injury that changed me in so many ways three years ago has released its iron grip. Three years ago, two years ago, a year ago, I would have jumped for joy to know how recuperated I feel today.

So I’m setting out. To meet Joe Gannon in New York and fundraise for the kids of the Integral Heart Family (happy birthday Joe!). Then to India. When I turned 31, I made the commitment to turn 33 in India and I’m keeping that soul promise. I have carried an interest in Tibetan Buddhism since high school and wish to deepen those studies in the exiled home of the Tibetan government in Dharamsala.

“Is the Dalai Lama even going to be home the month I plan to stay?” I wondered a week ago. I checked online. Yes. The only public events he’ll be doing in country is three days of teaching on The Boddhisattva’s Way of Life June 6-8. I turn 33 on June 7. My last time with Brett, he shared with me how he had taken Boddhisattva vows before the Dalai Lama. Things seem well aligned.